From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 15: 9:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141EC37B6C4 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:09:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15403; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:09:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <200006192209.PAA15403@kithrup.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kblob discussion. In-Reply-To: <200006192156.OAA09767.kithrup.freebsd.freebsd-arch@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:43:29 CDT." <20000619164329.F37084@prism.flugsvamp.com> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200006192156.OAA09767.kithrup.freebsd.freebsd-arch@mass.osd.bsdi.com> you write: >Again, folks; kblob is an optimisation for a very common performance >case, not a network engineer's wet dream. It's meant to address a >real-world problem in an efficient fashion. Larry McVoy did this kind of thing for SGI, and wrote a very nice paper or two about it for UseNIX. Has anyone checked those out? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message