Sorry, wrong list! Hans du Plooy wrote:
Gnu-Raiz wrote:
Cpu nic usage is a little moot, with dual core chips,
Well, I have seen the following. Pentium-III 1ghz with 3com nic, maxing the CPU under heavy network (100mbit) load such as copying stuff over samba/nfs. AthlonXP 2ghz (2400+) with marvel gigabit controller, copying files to another marvel gigabit chip (both on ASUS boards, the target machine being an Athlon64 3200+ 2.2ghz), also maxing the CPU on both ends, and getting only about 15MB/s. SUSE running on the Athlon, Gentoo on the Athlon64.
Yes, dual cores would help, but if you actually need your CPU to do some heavy lifting on your server, you want it not to be bothered with a network card (or multiple cards) offloading.
Hans