Re: UDP performance.

2007-03-05 Thread David Gilbert
... again, BIND is not a good indicator of UDP performance. A non-trivial application can send and receive about 250k pps on moderate hardware. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Ma

Re: UDP performance.

2007-03-05 Thread David Gilbert
ead. But: the whole reason I'm testing NSD for a client is because BIND has huge performance bottlenecks with large zones (bind reportedly takes 20 minutes from when it run to when it's ready to serve the first query). Dave. -- ===

Re: Performance on udp socket

2007-01-27 Thread David Gilbert
ads. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisel

Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

2006-04-26 Thread David Gilbert
the Dell tax), consider the Sun 1U's. They offer up to 4 cores in a 1U. Dave. -- ==== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are

Re: Device polling heavy traffic

2005-12-27 Thread David Gilbert
The lastest hardware available when we tested things was PCI-X (ie: 133 Mhz, 64 bit). Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Device polling heavy traffic

2005-12-27 Thread David Gilbert
P's are no slouch (although, like em's, there's dozens of different kinds with differing performance characteristics), but EM's are better. The EM driver seems better at polling, too. Dave. --

Re: rmt as a bottleneck - Was: Weird behaviour of AIT-3 and (g)tar

2005-05-31 Thread David Gilbert
pe suite for FreeBSD ... but something more important always comes along. Problem is, everything needs rejiging ... tar, dump, tape drivers, rmt, etc. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things

Re: 64bit CPUs

2005-05-02 Thread David Gilbert
CI-X slots than the opterons themselves. Memory bandwidth probably doesn't hurt, either. Dave. -- ======== |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]