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On Thu, 2 Jul 1998 sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote:
> The measurements
> have shown that handling 115200 bps transfer caused 11520
> interrupts per second and ate up about 20%  CPU of 20 MHz 386
> in the interrupt handler. The OS was SCO Unix 3.2.1.

Interesting. One the 486/25, linux 1.0.xx, the 10k interrupts also seemed to
eat about 20% of the machine.

ron

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