[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Chris Hedemark]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 11:21, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Why do I need that much bandwidth?

You might not.  Many people do.

Two of the biggest network hogs that come to mind are X11 and NFS.
Having 10x network performance to the desktop over 10BaseT makes a very
real and tangible difference.

> I work off my local disk most of
> the time.  I'd rather have a second machine in my office rather than
> upgraded networking.

The investment might not make sense for you then.  More power to you.

> Now, at home faster networking would be great.

I keep 100Mbps connections to the necessary machines.  But most of the
boxes are fine at 10Mbps and the hardware is increasingly available for
free.  I just picked up a couple of rack mount managed hubs for free
over the weekend, each one with around 50 ports available.  For a 1500sf
house I will never even get into the second hub unless I have all of my
machines on at once.

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