RE: [squid-users] Dual Bus machines

From: Hermann Strassner <hermann.strassner@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:53:39 +0200

> Thats true, sort of, but not really. PCI can BURST to roughly 1Gb/s,

Standard PCI with 32 Bits and 33 MHz? I dont think so.

> Given that a full duplex ethernet can eat up half of the real bus
> bandwidth (if you have 2 it could dominate the bus),

What sort of cache would use 400 Mb/s Network bandwidth constantly?

> I read on this list that someone
> claimed that a dual processor didnt make much difference,

> but most dual
> processor MBs have 2 busses

I havnt heard this, and i use more than one Dual PCs.
Esp. not two PCI busses, of course they have two processor busses.

Hermann
Received on Wed Aug 14 2002 - 00:53:42 MDT

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