From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:429016f8.1585790{at}216.144.1.254...

> > > I can't see how an app could meaningfully do anything with the data
> > > arriving from a flat-out gigabit network (16 microseconds per 1024
byte
> > > packet at 50% utilisation).
> >
> > File transfer on a dual cpu system?
>
> Fair enough, but the original point of this thread was (I think) that an
> app wanted to send data quickly over a gigabit network to another app.

So if a 1000baseT network were heavily loaded, you think that would nearly
suck up all the cpu on machines connected to it while they try to figure
out if the packets are for them or not and then handling their packets?

Geo.

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