Do any of our customers out there have some measurements of Sun client throughput?
I thought I could use a 2 x 400MHz Ultra Enterprise E250 with a new Sun GbE card in it as a killer client, and I find that with V3 32KB UDP packets, the sucker rolls over at
~30 MB/s
with 2 CPUs pinned at 99% in system time.
This *sucks*.
In an experimental filer setup reading from memory (all cached data) the F760 CPU is at 20%.
I am totally client bound.
Has anyone sized Sun clients out there? Are the PCI clients dogs? Is the new GbE card from Sun a loser? Should I go grab a new Alteon card for the Sun?
What is your killer high performance client?
It seems a function of the Sun E250 - 100BaseT seems to scale only to 30 MB/s before running out of CPU...
Broken-hearted in Amsterdam, beepy