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Background

Previous articles [1],[2] presented memory contention data for SMP motherboards. In this article we present some tests using Ethernet interfaces. The main question to be investigated is the effect of sharing the interface between two processors. The obvious answer is that the Ethernet channel capacity is reduced, but some quantitative measure should give some insight into the dynamics of these systems. Indeed, a follow-on question to consider is the effect of using two interfaces on a dual system.



Douglas Eadline 2003-04-16