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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Arne W=F6rner wrote:
> Hmm... Since /dev/zero delivers on my box about 100-300MByte/sec=20
> (100Mbyte/sec for 512byte block size), it looks like your network driver=
=20
> hinders the throughputting proceedings (I assume, that your other=20
> network devices can handle 90Mbit/sec; no ethernet collisions, no=20
> concurrency, ...). Are you sure, that Linux performs better in the same=
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> setting?

I think you must mean Mbps, not MBps. If it were bytes, you would be=20
saturating 2.5 gigabit links with a single connection. Not to mention=20
most PCI busses.

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Luke
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