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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:04:43 +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:

> It's not curious, it's not about bandwidth, it's about latency, and
> getting packets in and out of the server as fast as possible, and
> ahead of everything else. [...]

TUX prepares a HTTP reply in about 30 microseconds (plus network latency),
good enough? Network latency is the limit, even on gigabit - not to talk
about T1 lines.

	Ingo


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