Date: 01 Dec 1998 14:20:10 +0100 From: Benedikt Stockebrand <bs_13923_55877@adimus.de> To: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@chrisbowman.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations Message-ID: <sa7pva43sol.fsf@adimus.de> In-Reply-To: "Christopher R. Bowman"'s message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:40:53 -0500" References: <199811290843.AAA00385@dingo.cdrom.com> <199811302212.RAA04765@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
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"Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> writes:
> Of course this all ignores transaction overhead, packet overhead, inter packet
> space and realistic models of the latencies and bandwidths of the devices on
> the other end. It is just a rough theoretical max throughput.
And a server usually serves multiple clients. Even on a switched net
all this traffic has to go through a single 100 Mbps link between
switch and server.
This doesn't sound like a problem since most clients would spend
little of their time on disk/network I/O. But as soon as some of them
start to swap over the net this is a pain in the behind for everyone...
So long,
Ben
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