10 gigabit Ethernet - Add on question

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

Matthias Saou wrote:

> This is true for "raw" network traffic, because limits quickly depend
> on what and how you transfer. My testings on some brand new dual quad
> core PE1950 III servers (E5410 @ 2.33GHz w/ 6MB cache) show for
> instance that an rsync/ssh transfer from one to the other maxes out at
> 50MB/s because that corresponds to one ssh process taking 100% of one
> of the 8 cores. This is one of those cases where pure MHz power
> would be more useful than having so many cores :-)

Was that with the default 3des or with the allegedly lighter blowfish
cipher? Does changing ciphers make any real difference?

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