> Which is a very common scenario on web and application servers, specially if you design your web applications to be scalable. Doesn't matter. You can (and pr

> Which is a very common scenario on web and application servers, specially if you design your web applications to be scalable. Doesn't matter. You can (and probably will) still hit horrible bottlenecks in the network stack. Another flashback to developing on the 64+ Niagara cores. We were running an embarassingly scalable web application - loads of independent concurrent requests - but the Solaris OS just couldn't keep up. Has your NIC driver been optimised to scale for tens/hundreds of CPUs, I wonder?