What games are usually played at LANSA? I was thinking of going along this weekend but don't wanna walk in to see 100% CS players :)

mmm, ftp wont be getting much faster.
lets use some maths, 100Mb card = 12.5MB/s which doesnt include any overheads, - 8% for some overheads, ie frame type detection, autosensing etc etc gives you 11.5MBs (this is ignoring the fact that once a ethernet network reaches 30-40% utiliztion it is considered saturated, and avalibe bandwidth plummets to around 3-4Mbs on a 10Mb segment, but hey for you im using ideals... so you dont look quite as wrong)
which assumming you arent making up those figures leave a huge possible speed increase of... 1.5MB/s, me thinks, you need to run a couple 100Mb cards, not too many or else then your PCI bus will be the limiting factor..... 32bit 33Mhz, is kinda shit on a regular mobo.

using an average of 9000Kbs that equates too 388.9GB passed for a 6hour lan... you lie, you lie and you suck at it.

why dont you just check the port the server is plugged into on the switch and read the I/O traffic from the managment console.... huh huh?

what sort of switches are they?? i can lend a supervisor module of a 6500... it needs its OS reconfigued and the rest of it, but it is cool. worth $50000 or so =), i sat opn it just before which is why i remembered about it. LOL

every client puter that comes to the lan is plugged directly into the main Network Backbone being stacked switches, higher bandwidth.

i noticed during the night when doing an ftp of a large program that the trans rate went above 10000 to approx 12000..laugh if you will ;P, then jumped very quickly down to 8000 then stayed consistantly at 7000+ ..ask most people that go to the lan and they will prolly say the same thing ;)

btw "m" you left out a lot of other factors that can affect ftp speeds, but since you dont know bout them, no harm done LOL

very nice ;)

yea ftp has not gotten a lot faster (wer'e working on it), just a lot more consistant ;P

- Supfull
LanSA

Considering I managed to transfer 5 gig in under 10 minutes at one of the LANSA's, I'd say the FTP was pretty much fast enogh =)

so any one else questioning my authority now ? huh ? =P

mebbe i should be a comp. tech. after all teehehehe.

i transfered 3.5 gigs of hardcore pron in under 5 mins so no complaints here =) also, a lot of people were pleased to get hold of my AAA pr0n =D

LAN me up ;)

...stacked switches do not provide higher bandwidth they just reduce the bottleneck of cascaded switches...
-stacked switches provide higher bandwidth between the Switches, dont they....? lol

-no real use talking bout ide vs scsi as most client puters use 100 mbit or 10 mbit cards. most of the ata100 ide's of todays standard compare very well to scsi's anyhow ;)

-yea removed units, well i just try to make things simple for people to read and understand, majority of people dont care about the posting of a unit on the end of a number, with the exception of yourself ofcourse ;P...but hey...i'll try harder for u next time ;B

Thanks for the kewl info m, im keen to test some of your stuff now ;)
-Supps

dont u just love it when 2 comp tech. duke it out?

Heres one i prepared earlier:
… bandwidth does not increase to the FTP server, FTP server will still be sitting on a 10/100 Connection, whether you are running one big core switch, cascaded switches, or stacked switches, either way your FTP is still limited to 100Mbs, I mean you may have a gigabit backplane or even higher between your stacked switches but really that is pretty pissy, a 24Port Intel switch has around 9.1Gb backplane. If you wanna go to the high end switches a 6500 series has 256Gb backplane, which really does make you backpplane all the smaller, especially as each stacked switch must share the bandwidth with all the other switches in the stack, off the point there but either way your server gets just 100, stacked switches do not provide higher bandwidth to the ports, only to the switching fabric. Which returns me to the point that your server will only have around 8600KBs traffic to and from it at any one time.

What does the clients HDD got to do with the FTP server, my HDD can most certainly write faster than 20MBs saturating the LAN link “no real use talking bout ide vs scsi as most client puters use 100 mbit or 10 mbit cards” Oh yeah and people do have other things other than 1 10/100, eg I have 3x10/100 cards =) but as my mum says, ‘m’ your special! LOL
IDE does not compare to SCSI, EnhancedIDE/ATAttached still uses the CPU to process DMA requests unlike SCSI, which uses the far superior DMA bus mastering method. Each drive on a IDE drive channel must wait for the bus to become free, before transmitting unlike SCSI, standard ATA100 drives are very slow, decent 7200rpm drives such as the IBM GXP75 which is among the fasted EIDE drives available today still have access time of around 8ms, decent SCSI drives on the other hand have access times of under 4ms, with disk sizes up to 180GB, compared to EIDE drives with sizes around the 80Gb mark, SCSI supports up to 160MBs transfer in standard Ultra-3 /Ultra160. Now obviously your not going to go waste money on a 160Gb drive, but there is still a significant difference between the 2 formats, even more when you consider Ultra320, which is a non-standard SCSI format atm
AS most FTP’s have more than one concurrent user on them at once, access times are a very very big factor in the speed your transfers, if the disk is spending a large portion of its time switching tracks to get user 1, 2, 3, and 4’s data it cant spend that time on data transfer.
If you have 12+ users on your Server at once and they are transferring smallish files, ie below 2MB then if you check the network performance of your server you will most likely find that there is still bandwidth available, consequently that SHOULD alert you to the fact that the drive is now the limiting factor.

The reason I was picky about the units as in this case it makes a HUGE difference between the numbers you specify. I mean that’s like say you have a 56KBs (as opposed 56Kbs) to modem, when in actual fact you really only have a 5Kbs modem

Really to minimise the impact of disk activity decent amounts of ram should be installed, Eg my work file server has 1Gig of ram, 12x9.1GB Ultra 2 SCSI (RAID 5, RAID 1) and uses a Gigabit net card into a FibreNet fibre switch. Depending on the user usage makes the server more dependant on bandwidth or disk usage, due to the configuration of this machine, there is really no performance bottle neck, other than the CPU which is a Dual Xeon 450 512Kbs, this sits around 69% utilized which is far to high, same with ram usage, it could prolly do with another Gig of Ram, but it only uses ECC Tier 1 RAM which costs a packet. I really cant remember what my point was in the first place but I don’t mind, I’m just getting my typing speed up, while I’m here.
While I’m here ill list the servers I have access to.
Quad Xeon 550 1Mb Cache, 256Mb RAM 3x9.1Gb SCSI RAID 5 2x9.1Gb SCSI RAID 1 [DIST]
Dual Xeon 450 512Kb cache, 1Gig RAM, 12x9.1GB SCSI RAID 5 and RAID 1
3 of them servers. [DUF31 DUF30 and DUU30]
IBM Netfinity 3000’s x2 [METAMARC for DUF30 and DUF34]
Dual 933’s 768Mb RAM 2x18.2GIG 15000rpm HDD x2servers [N/A]
Dual 866 684Mb RAM, 3x18.2Gig 15000rpm RAID 5 2x9.1GB RAID 1 [N/A]
Some POS Compaq box, 128Mb RAM, Xeon 400 2Mb [DUF34]
IBM Dual P-Pro 200’s 760, some ram and some HDD space but nothing special [ENTERPRISE]
HP PA-RISC 9000, with Storage enclosure of 200GB, including DLT 40/80GB [ADELAIDE]
I wont even bother listing the other less important ones, nor will I list the Network hardware. unless someone asks =), mind you ill only reply with network details if someone knows what a GBIC is, other wise ill assume you haven’t a clue… ill give you a hint, GigaBitInterfaceC___ and to help even more, you can plug GigaStack’s into them which are Proprietary Cisco Systems stuff…. All you need is the last three letters to get me to blabber more =)

One last point, whenever I specify RAID I’m referring to Hardware RAID, not software of Firmware crap.
Software being Windows/*nix based, which works to some degree but is a pain to setup on only a few drives and it considerably slower and more CPU intensive.
Then there is Firmware, which is what most people have on their motherboards, this is still done using microcode inside your ATA100/66 controller.
And the one that im talking about Hardware, dedicated Processing Unit, it i960 or other RISC based processor, with additional cache, which is something that firmware lacks, and becomes very obvious that it lacks it when placed under anything other than a light load.
Either way im going, my typing with eyes closed has improved, so I should do some work =)… don’t you love it when you do massive network upgrades on the Saturday and then come Monday everything is still fine and functioning… I do =)

i admire your attention to details 'm'.
Most people just post information like that and don't understand what they are typing, but i can tell your not one of those, keep up the good work mate ;) if you worked in the computer sales industry, i can think of nothing better than to buy hardware from you ;), there's nothing quite like buying hardware from a person that knows the technology, knows what they are talking about and can explain it well.

-supps

i wub u all. not.

bwhahahahaha *clink* *clunk* OW *CLUNK*

mike or nick but i don't care about that stuff all i go to lans is to get crap and play crap

crap = stuff

and i got tribes 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rack up posts? pft.

frag thats u and zell :)

me have Dastardly's address and phone number =)
in fact i even know his parents names LOL

should be fun if he annoys me.

Im really thankfull that only 3 'computer' people actually know where i normally live. makes retaliation quite difficult... along with not knowing my 'real name'
eheh.

i know ur full real name and could find ur address out really easilly :)
hahahahha

nice 100th post

xzennon is there a banner for users who spam

Thats just of my crappy house....
BTW i have mentioned to people who know where i live to keep there mouths shut.. i have done this along time ago, as even a couple of years ago i didnt really want 'computer people' rocking up to my house.. and bugging me big doggy =)

Plus i dont mind if you know where i live cause your a nice person =)

Plus i have good security.. ie spiked fences... strong doogy.... variuos weapons.. knives, bats, guns of various descriptions, and some particulary massive friends who would enjoy a spate of pay-back.

But im not really fussed, i sleep well at night, unless that dam chick is nudging me for a lot more lovin'
LOL

my understanding is that you cant do that, that a NIC cant run parralel to another nic effectively doubling pull rates, but u can multihone them to do different tasks.

correct me if im wrong.

hey mike, expect me at ur house tomorrow with me computer hahahahahahha
im kidding :)

oh and the life of computers for giles
...Spam and Annoy

it's pple like u that make the internet a bad place.....

haha

oh and its G-A-M-E-S not GSMES
i wanna GSMES
hhehehe

tried it, cant do it sorry

thx man

its very norti to ressurect old posts like this