From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 14:18:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10713 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:18:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fantomas.fantomas.sk (fantomas@fantomas.fantomas.sk [195.168.5.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10601 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fantomas@fantomas.fantomas.sk) Received: (from fantomas@localhost) by fantomas.fantomas.sk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA21418 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:17:31 +0200 Message-Id: <199806042117.XAA21418@fantomas.fantomas.sk> Subject: named pipes/unix domain sockets To: freesd-request@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:14:07 +0200 (CEST) From: fantomas@fantomas.sk (fantomas) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'd like to know following: 1. is communicationv ia unix domain socket faster then vie localhost or IP of local machine ? 2. if it is, how can I create unix domaion sockes in my filesystem ? the problem is, i have IRC server on FreeBSD-2.2.6 and I wanna have some services connected to it; i wanna the communication to be as fast as it can be; also spare some unnecessarty CPU time; would it be better for local clients andf services to connect to unix domain socket, localhost, or normal IP of my machine ? -- fantomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message