From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 25 15:24:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01668 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01644 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00336; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:23:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199804252223.RAA00336@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Bandwidth throttling etc. In-Reply-To: <19980425160226.17154@mcs.net> from Karl Denninger at "Apr 25, 98 04:02:26 pm" To: karl@mcs.net (Karl Denninger) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:23:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: trost@cloud.rain.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger said: > > > > > AFAIK, and I am NOT a networking export, we need to improve the sockets > > layer as much as the lower level networking code. > > > > John > > Where do you believe there are deficiencies in the socket layer at present? > > I *HAVE* done some work in there (for our own proprietary stuff) and might > be able to make some improvements. I haven't noticed any particularly > "evil" behavior of late, and as such haven't spent time on this. > Mostly architectural performance issues. Last time I checked, alot of the overhead is in sockets. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message