Christoph Lameter wrote:
We may have TOE in $40 network cards. In fact given the way things shape
up there is the possibility that it may become difficult to get NICs
without TOE next year.
People have been saying this every year.
Every year, we go through this argument.
Every year, people fail to realize that the bottlenecks are not the
software net stack, but RAM and PCI bus bandwidth.
Every year, people forget that during the previous year, Intel, AMD, and
other chipset/CPU makers increase the bandwidth at which network
bottlenecks.
And yet, somehow, life goes on...
Jeff
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