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From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: Is com performance improved under NetBSD 0.9 ?
References: <28id7d$c8r@goodman.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> <CEA7HD.2IH@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 12:29:27 GMT
Organization: The home of the Pilhuhn
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bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) writes:
>>I have been using NetBSD 0.8 for some time now, and am very happy with it,
>>except for one thing:  the performance of serial i/o.

>Serial performance has increased a lot with NetBSD-0.9.  It's quite
>possible to run at 38400 bps on a 386/40 and only get a couple of silo
>overflows.  However the system on which we (Heiko and me) do this

We naturally have fifos installed to acheive this - even when running
two 38400 bps lines at the same time, we don't get too much silo
overflows.
Compiling the kernel with -O2 and DUMMY_NOPS also decreased the number
of overflows.

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