>> As matter of interest, do these cards offer lower throughput than 4x >> single 1GB cards?
> Depends mostly on if you are using PCI/PCI-X vs PCI-express. At high bit > rates you can saturate the old PCI bus. A single gigabit port can pretty > much saturate a 32-bit PCI bus at 33MHz. > > PCI-express can go a lot faster. > Benjamin Franz And on current multi CPU / multi core plattforms care to have support for MSI-X on the motherboard and by the Ethernet controller (for 10Gbe and virtualization this is even a must to gain maximum performance). Alexander _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
