On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Richard> It might not be a 2.0.36 driver that is needed. It may be the
> > Richard> 2.0.36 reliability!
> >
> > 2.0.36 reliawhat?? If you are looking for GigE performance you are
> > likely to want SMP and SMP in 2.0.36 is absolutely not realiable.
>
> Actually by 2.0.36 its very reliable. It still gives sucky performance.
>
> Alan
forbin:~# uname -a;uptime
Linux forbin 2.0.36 #2 SMP Sun Apr 4 14:04:56 AKDT 1999 i686 unknown
7:40pm up 435 days, 2:43, 1 user, load average: 5.46, 5.30, 5.28
Dual PPro 200Mhz, 128M ECC FPM @66mhz
Ultra-Wide + Cheetas
Box has been rebooted once since the last kernel build, when
we lost power for 4 hrs. We had 3.5 hrs backup power.
Right about the network io though, it will easily max a single
100Mbit interface, but won't go past 180Mbit total (box has 2 100Mbit
FD interfaces).
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