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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:44:26 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> 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!!!

(no need to get emotional.) 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!

	Ingo

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