> > > You have been using the wrong card and/or wrong software. Check out the > TUX webserver: it uses zerocopy sendfile() and with the correct network > card (3com and drivers it ofloads the TCP/IP checksum to the network card. > TUX showed that the real bottle neck is the notoriously slow PCI bus, > *not* the CPU, memory, or disk. See a linux-kernel archive for more > information, or http://people.redhat.com/mingo/TUX-patches/ for the TUX > web server. > Erik, Would you point out the link for benchmark result of TUX webserver using zerocopy sendfile() on linux-kernel. I just can't find it. > > Erik > > -- > J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty > of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, > PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 > Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl > WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- <Linux kernel:>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
