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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:37:04 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good news -- pipe stuff
Message-ID:  <199601262137.WAA20194@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601261541.HAA09194@freefall.freebsd.org> from "John Dyson" at Jan 26, 96 07:41:52 am

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As John Dyson wrote:

> Pipe latency is about 2x the speed, pipe bandwidth is about 50% faster,
> and I am still evaluating the context switch -- but it is faster.  Before
> I include the changes, I plan to add more intelligent memory management
> of pipes (including making them pageable -- instead of tieing up wired
> memory), and page-flipping.  Page-flipping should add about 50% more onto
> the bandwidth.

Well, is this still wish-time?  Some other systems seem to allow the
specification of the pipe buffer size as a resource limit.  Would this
fit into a re-implementation, too?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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