Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:40:08PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The discussion on peak vs average is worth understanding as is the fact that > a link that is 80% utilized will suffer a lot of latency and has no room for > significant down time. > > 80% average utilization is way high in my

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-03 Thread markd
At 11:01 PM 10/3/99 -0300, Eric Dahnke wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: >> > Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: >> > >> > A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg >> > size was 23K. >> > >> > Thx >> >> You're not t

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-03 Thread Eric Dahnke
> On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: > > Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: > > > > A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg > > size was 23K. > > > > Thx > > You're not taking into account how the router will handle the traff

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-03 Thread Gordon Smith
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: > Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: > > A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg > size was 23K. > > Thx You're not taking into account how the router will handle the traffic. You can comp

RE: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Lyndon Griffin
Forgive me if the two posts from Eric were not related: saturating a T1: Todd presents a good formula, but this is not taking into account anything but the message size. As Stan mentions, email size is not a good indicator of total network traffic - even if you are only in the

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that Todd A. Jacobs may have mentioned these words: >On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: > >> A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg >> size was 23K. > >Not really. You need to differentiate peak load from sustained. > > (average message size) * (num

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: > A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg > size was 23K. Not really. You need to differentiate peak load from sustained. (average message size) * (number of messages per hour) -

Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Stan Horwitz
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote: > > Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: > > A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg > size was 23K. I would not bet on it. The average message size is not an indicator of network traffic.

OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

1999-10-02 Thread Eric Dahnke
Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts: A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg size was 23K. Thx