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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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> > Gleaned froma Linux mailing list.
> > 
> > > About a week ago, Alan Cox commented that the networking code in 1.3.xx
> > > wasn't up to coping with the type of load that a WWW server would 
> > > experience, and that 1.2.xx was a better choice for that application.
> > 
> > Apparently Linux 1.3 with the re-written TCP/IP code still isn't up to
> > the task.
> 
> Sheesh.  What it must have cost him to say _that_.  Bit of a pity, really.

And he's the author of the new code, so what he says is most definitely
an unbiased opinion.  I saw some other notes on other articles that it
appears to be a problem with the new kernel malloc routines.  Apparently
the real-time extensions are getting in the way of the kernel being able
to service it's own internal memory requests for things like network
buffers and such.


Nate