Check out FAQ #7
http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/v880/faqs.html

Austin


On 2/8/06, Paul Keating <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca> wrote:
> My thoughts exactly....
>
> My 2 HBAs are in the 66MHz slots, but I've been told by several folks
> that the HBAs are more efficient than the GigE cards, and I will see a
> significant performance increase overall, by putting the HBAs in the
> 33MHz slots, and putting the GigE cards in the 66MHz slots.
>
> Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Austin Murphy [mailto:austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com]
> > Sent: February 7, 2006 5:42 PM
> > To: Paul Keating
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] performance?
> >
> >
> > One of the networking guys here setup MRTG to monitor network traffic
> > and it always reported very low numbers for what I saw going over the
> > network.    My streams that run at ~30MB/sec show up as 10-13 MB/sec
> > in MRTG.
> >
> > The tech specs...
> > http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFire880_shared
> > /spec.html
> >    ... show 2x 64bit/64MHz and 7x 64bit/33MHz slots.
> >
> > 64bit-66MHz PCI is supposed to be able to move 528MB/sec.
> > 64bit-33MHz PCI is 264MB/sec.     Theoretical, of course, but
> > certainly sufficient to move 120MB/sec (4 streams) in and 240MB/sec
> > out (originals and copies).
> >
> > Austin