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> Who cares about data copy overhead? If the kernel spend 5% of the CPU
> time in copying, there are still 95% free CPU cycles.

Quite a few people care about copy overhead, actually. Read Larry McVoy's 
splice paper to see why:

	http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/splice.ps.gz

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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