MPE/iX Network Performance

page 2611/13/2008
HP presentation template user tutorial
MPE/iX SYSTEM PERFORMANCE to
NETWORKING
• System is very busy servicing interrupts
– Tradeoff between “smart” cards and “dumb” cards
• Network adapters could do more work
• Newer cards are cheaper, but system needs to do processing
• High LAN traffic situations see this more often as problem
• Solution is to get more CPU
• Efficiencies have been introduced into MPE/iX stacks