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 Posted by  raymond_b_jimenez on 09/01/07 10:55 
On 31 Ago, 22:45, "TheSQLGuru" <kgbo...@earthlink.net> wrote: 
> In addition to agreement with others statements about refactoring the 
> application to reduce network traffic, I proffer the following:  lets assume 
> that you are an Amazon.com wannabee and you really DO have 25Mbps 
> steady-state bandwidth needs between IIS and SQL Server.  That gives you 
> have almost THREE orders of magnitude before running out of currently 
> available network capacity (10GB ethernet).  Even cheapo 1000MB ethernet 
> gives a huge amount of headroom to grow into. 
While all that is true, you have several other factors pounding you 
with these amounts of traffic. Name two: TCP/IP slow-start and 
interrupts on the receiving servers. Last one can be solved with 
better network cards, but mines are already offloading work on the 
hardware. 
 
rj
 
  
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