On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:19 -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> It's not so much the bandwidth but more the roundtrips that limit your
> maximum transaction throughput.
I completely agree that the latency is counting, not the bandwith.
Does anybody have latency / roundtrip measurements for current hardware?
I'm interested in:1Gb Ethernet,10 Gb Ethernet,InfiniBand,probably even p2p usb2 or firewire links?
At least Quadrics claims(1) to have measured only 1.38 microseconds.
Assuming real world condition would give you 5 microseconds, on a 3 GHz
processor that's 15'000 CPY cycles. Which is IMHO not that much any
more. Or am I wrong (mental arithmetic never was my favourite subject)?
RegardsMarkus
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http://www.quadrics.com/quadrics/QuadricsHome.nsf/NewsByDate/98FFE60F799AC95180256FEA002A6D9D