IOS new versions and network load

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Thu Sep 21 13:09:19 UTC 2017


There are also considerations with the throughput capability of the
hardware too.

500T in a couple RU is nice and all, but if the box can only push ~15Gbps
because of bottlenecks in hardware, or the kernel isn't tuned, it's might
be a lot less useful depending on the content, as Jared points out.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:34:41PM -0500, Aaron Gould wrote:
> > My Netflix servers are half a petabyte of cached movies and they are
> about 18 inches tall .... not sure what you mean.
>
>         Serving different file types requires different things.  If you
> are serving the same episodes from storage it's much different than
> live content, or serving dynamic updates based on entitlement
> levels, etc.
>
>         Not all CDNs are like Netflix, for better or worse.
>
>         - Jared
>
> --
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> clue++;      | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/  My statements are only
> mine.
>



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