Allen wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
This has been discussed *extensively* on the list. You can no doubt read
the archives for more detail. I've run bge and em based cards for many,
many moons and both have served me quite well.
I'm sure others have done more testing than I have but if I had to pick
which was "better" it would be a toss up. Both have performed admirably
even when given a right proper thrashing. :-)
Well, one difference for me here. The EM does give me better results in
very heavy use, but what really make it the choice for me is when it's
setup in CARP. Why, well, I can't say why, but if the server crash and
it does when I use PERL very heavily for hours none stop and it's always
when is process huge logs by awstats with the query extension enable. In
that case, the server will crash may be once a month and when it does,
CARP sadly do not take it over in that case as the BGE built in network
card still reply to multicast packets and ping.
I can't explain it, but that's the results. The server is dead, nothing
works anymore and does need to be hard reset, and the purpose of setting
CARP in that instance is gone. So far I do not have that effect with em
card.
Don't asked me what's different, I do not know, that's the end results
however.
So, if you have a choice, I sure would use em, if CARP is not in the
picture, bge is not bad, but em still provide better results so far.
Best,
Daniel
