Understanding Bandwidth and Latency

M. Woodrow, Jr. writes "Ars has a very eye-opening article on the real causes of bandwidth latency and why we should just drool endlessly over maximum throughput issues. In particular, I think the author's look into the PowerPC 970 and the P4's frontside bus is interesting considering how we're constantly being told by marketers that more speed is always going to translate into massive performance gains. The issue is, of course, far more complex, and this article does a good job of thinking about the problem from an almost platform agnostic point of view."

Comments

I'm no democrat. The demos are corporate whores

[MichaelCrawford]

I voted Green, thank you very much.

Re: your sig

[Myco]

Never put salt in your eyes.
Never put salt in your eyes.
Never put salt in your eyes.
Never put salt in your eyes.
Always put salt in your eyes.

AAAAAAUUUGH!!!!

God I miss kids in the hall. Thanks for the reminder.

One of the cause of the latency

[jsse]

are the Netbios requests from those Microsoft Windows servers.

I got about a hundred netbios requests from all over the world to each of our servers attach to Internet, everyday. No one seems to take this problem seriously. Oh well...

Re:I'm no democrat. The demos are corporate whores

[MichaelCrawford]

The main reason I don't vote democratic is that they are cowardly and do not present any kind of real oppositiion to the republicans.

Wasn't the vote for the DMCA unanimous? Lots of democrats voting for corporate interests. Look at the large number of democrats who voted for Bush' resolution on war in Iraq.

I feel that the democratic party has outlived its usefulness and needs to be replaced by a party that will live true to its ideals.

I see some chance that the democratic party will survive and I might vote for them again - if they lose enough membership to the greens that they decide they must change, develop some spine and put up a real opposition to the republicans.