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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:20:28 -0600
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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  [me]
> > So the real question is, how many gettimeofday() per sec can Linux
> > do?

[Larry McVoy]
> Oh, about 3,531,073 on a 1Ghz AM thunderbird running 
> Linux disks.bitmover.com 2.4.0-test5.

So, at two "context switches" (Jeff's term) per syscall, we're
somewhere around half the speed of Netware's longjmp.

Not bad. (:

Peter
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