On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 08:24, Ivan Krstic wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
> My research reveals that 24 port gigabit switches are
available for under
$600.
Managed switches a bit more, but still under $800.
That seems worthwhile to me.
I don't think you want to make this decision without at
least getting
some rudimentary numbers to work with. I'd be
surprised if
you're maxing
out regular 100 Mbit/s ethernet, but two quick
ways to check
are MRTG on
routers, or ntop (in webserver mode) on the
actual machines. My
knee-jerk response is that the types of things that
wikipedia servers do
are CPU/IO bound, not network.
gigabit could be useful for copying quickly big files to another
machine for mirror/backup/etc..., today disks throughput are well above
100Mbit/s for linear access.
I agree, last time, when Brion moved db from Suda to Curly, db was down during 2 hours,
time to copy 60GB through a 100Mb network.
Shaihulud