Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 22:17:53 -0700 From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), marcs@znep.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel wishlist for web server performance Message-ID: <199803090517.WAA04140@pencil-box.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 06:58:29 %2B0100." <199803080558.GAA04603@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199803080558.GAA04603@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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In message <199803080558.GAA04603@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Luigi Rizzo writes: : Furthermore, consider that on modern machines these copies might : run at some 250Mbytes/s or faster, i.e. one order of magnitude : faster than network/disk speed. That is 50ish times the sustained speed of most disk drives. And 25 times faster than the fastest generally deployed network technology (100BaseT). Anyway, we're talking at most 2-4% savings here at the cost of a huge amount of kernel bloat. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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