[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, alex j avriette wrote:

> > When you've got a lot of servers running, you a lot of
> > bandwidth so they aren't all going down a shared 100M
> > pipe.  Remember, we are talking thousands of servers.
>
> thats still BS.
>
> if you were able to saturate, say, 2 T3's (such as we have at $job),
> thats 90mbit/s. thats half a megabit/s per netra, provided we have the
> aforementioned rack of 180 netras. so you have 999.5 megabit of "spare
> bandwidth" on the netras. if you had five racks of netras, you'd be
> close to your 1000 servers (one httpd instance per server? hmph!)... do
> you see where this is going?

We're talking about much more than 90Mbps.  There are places that will
need to do significantly more than that.  And we're talking about several
thousand servers.

Peace...  Sridhar