On Wed 7 Jan, 1930, Darrell Fuhriman darrell@grumblesmurf.net wrote:

Brian Tao taob@risc.org writes:

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Do you find that with 2 x 400-MHz CPU's that you have enough

cycles to stream 600 Mbps off the gigabit ethernet and sustain high throughput to your tape drives?

Yep, plenty. :) Of course, in our testing we've found that Sun does much better at this than other platforms, say DEC, which just crapped itself entirely. :)

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Heh. Have you been extra careful balancing your sbus/pci cards? What tape units do you use? What host adaptors too?

Did you try IBM's, SGI's or HP's, out of sheer curiosity..?

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Darrell -- End of excerpt from Darrell Fuhriman