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Certainly a huge difference, but if you want good performance you need to treat this as a remote buffer management problem in both cases.


Sorry, but I can’t take the suggestion that the PCI bus and the internet should be treated the same seriously. You’re telling 4 or 5 orders of magnitude difference. Maybe more on some specs.

It’s like saying you should use the same file access algorithms for a RAM disk and punch cards. No you shouldn’t!


You need to compare to memory on the main board.




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