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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:10:00 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers
Message-ID:  <9506122110.AA01155@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506122044.WAA17640@blaise.ibp.fr>
References:  <199506121642.LAA00253@mpp.com> <199506122044.WAA17640@blaise.ibp.fr>

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<<On Mon, 12 Jun 1995 22:44:06 +0200 (MET DST), roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) said:

> The user mode ppp seems slower (1.3 KB/s compared to 1.55 KB/s). Maybe
> a configuration problem on my part but I got the asyncmap right (I think).

Of course.  Remember that you have to do a context switch to process
every packet.  That doesn't come for free.

-GAWollman

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