[Sunhelp] 100Mhz needed for each port in use

[The Archimage]

Well, there is the school of thought that says that for each i/o you
generate interrupts, and with more clock cycles, more interrupts can be
handles in a shorter amount of time.

Assuming he wasn't just trying to score a bigger sale, maybe that's what
he meant.

Archimage

Reagen Ward wrote:
> 
> I wonder how that guy sold qfe cards back before these fast CPUs were avail.
> CPU clock speed has little to do with the system's I/O capacity.
> 
> Reagen
> 
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:11:03PM -0500, Glover, Duke wrote:
> > Hello SUN gods,
> >
> > I was told by a SUN rep that you needed 100Mhz worth of processor for each
> > Ethernet port in use on a qfe card.  In other words, if you wanted to use
> > all 4 Ethernet ports you needed to have 400Mhz worth of processor.  I have
> > been unable to find any documentation supporting this.  Has anyone ever
> > heard this before ?  Or can anyone point me to some documentation that might
> > discuss this.  Is anyone out there running a system using all 4 ports with
> > less than 400Mhz ?
> >
> > AtDhVaAnNkCsE,
> >
> > Duke Glover
> > desk = 813-978-5682
> > page = 888-510-6042
> > duke.glover at verizon.com
> > Verizon / Enterprise Information Protection Services
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