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Mixing Gigabit, Copper, and Linux

Posted by timothy on from the way-faster-than-my-56K-dialup dept.

iampgray writes: "With copper-based gigabit cards selling for less than $36 these days, what kind of performance can you expect -- especially in the often-overlooked Linux market? We sought out to test exactly what you could expect from copper-based gigabit solutoins for the desktop interface through the cluster-targeted products. Name brands and off-brands were put through the wringer. How'd they fare? Interesting results to say the least."

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  1. Hoboy. by Soko · · Score: 4, Funny

    How'd they fare?

    Not terribly well against the /. effect.

    Interesting results to say the least.

    Lessee, a story about increasing bandwidth on a server /.ed to oblivion? That's not interestng, that's anti-climatic - I know what happens before I get to the story. Oh well...

    Soko

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  2. Re:Text of Article (fourth section) by Slash+Veteran · · Score: 3, Funny

    you, sir, are taking a huge slurp from the karma tit today. Congratulations to you! Cheerio.

  3. Re:Cheap NICs, costly switches by Geek+In+Training · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please disregard the parent post. It is WRONG, the hubs/switches are not cheap, I have been edumacted by my peers. :)

    The flogging will happen later, when my karma gets updated.

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  4. A real measurement problem by GlobalEcho · · Score: 3, Funny
    The authors of the study write:

    the results obtained in this study clearly show that peak performance is not a complete indicator of peak performance


    Wow. That makes any analysis tough, when performance measures fail to satisfy the Reflexive Property!

    Brian