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Subject: Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!
To: jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org (Jeff V. Merkey)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:47:10 +0000 (GMT)
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> We will never beat NetWare on scaling if this is the case, even in 2.4.  
> Andre and my first job will be to create an arch port with MANOS that
> disables this and restructures the VM.  

In the 2.4 case if you are just running NFS daemons then there are no tlb
reloads going on at all. Whats murdering you is mostly memory copies. I would
suspect if you rerun the profiles on a box with a much lower memory bandwidth
that the effect will be even more visible
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