Luke Lonergan wrote:

>Brian,
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>On 12/6/06 8:02 AM, "Brian Hurt" <bhurt@janestcapital.com> wrote:
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>>These numbers are close enough to bus-saturation rates
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>PCIX is 1GB/s + and the memory architecture is 20GB/s+, though each CPU is
>likely to obtain only 2-3GB/s.
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>We routinely achieve 1GB/s I/O rate on two 3Ware adapters and 2GB/s on the
>Sun X4500 with ZFS.
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For some reason I'd got it stuck in my head that PCI-Express maxed out
at a theoretical 533 MByte/sec- at which point, getting 480 MByte/sec
across it is pretty dang good. But actually looking things up, I see
that PCI-Express has a theoretical 8 Gbit/sec, or about 800Mbyte/sec.
It's PCI-X that's 533 MByte/sec. So there's still some headroom
available there.

Brian