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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If anyone is interested, here are some real-world
statistics of what a serveriron can do. These levels of traffic resulted in 100%
cpu utilization. The total amount of traffic making it through this machine was
about 80-90% of actual demand. They are quite a bit different than what the
brochure claims...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Model: </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>8-port
ServerIronXL, 400Mhz processor, 32MB System DRAM</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Expansion: 1 GIGA Fiber uplink interfaces</DIV>Board Type: <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>ServerIron Switch Board Type 1, Octal
System</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Firmware: 07.3.05aT12</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bits/sec</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rx: 140M</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tx: 130M</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Packets/sec</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rx: 126k</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tx: 102k</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>10k http requests/sec</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 Virtual servers</FONT></DIV>146 Real servers -
DSR, not sticky - nothing fancy</FONT></DIV>
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