Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:32:19 -0800 From: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
Does anybody have any rough figures for what kind of load (both bytes/s total throughput and packets/s) a more or less vanilla x86 running a free OS can handle today? The last time I looked at this -- several years ago -- I seemed to top out at somewhere close to 200 Mb/s total throughput; I figured I could safely count on 100 Mb/s. That is consistent with a 32-bit PCI bus running at 33 MHz: raw capacity is 1 Gb/s, but each bit takes two trips over the bus, so that's 500 Mb/s, but then there's substantial bus overhead (contention, burst setup overhead, etc.).
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