Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:04:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:04:11 -0500 Received: from [194.213.32.137] ([194.213.32.137]:4100 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:03:56 -0500 Message-ID: <20001031195012.A138@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:50:12 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! In-Reply-To: <20001030022024.B20023@vger.timpanogas.org> <20001030023814.B20102@vger.timpanogas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <20001030023814.B20102@vger.timpanogas.org>; from Jeff V. Merkey on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:38:14AM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > This is putrid. NetWare does 353,00,000/second on a Xenon, pumping out > > > gobs of packets in between them. MANOS does 857,000,000/second. This > > > is terrible. No wonder it's so f_cking slow!!! > > And please check your numbers, 857 million > > context switches per second means that on a 1 GHZ CPU you do one context > > switch per 1.16 clock cycles. Wow! > > Excuse me, 857,000,000 instructions executed and 460,000,000 context > switches > a second -- on a PII system at 350 Mhz. It's due to AGI > optimization. That's more than one context switch per clock. I do not think so. Really go and check those numbers. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/