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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
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Date: 12 Jul 1996 19:09:08 GMT
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John S. Dyson (dyson@inuxs.att.com) wrote:
: The scalability
: issues on the old Linux context switch didn't come into effect until
: about 20processes did it?  

BS.  They degraded exponentially.   @ were worse than one.

: You ARE making progress.

You're failing the "oh, please don't be insulting" test again John.
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Larry McVoy     lm@sgi.com     http://reality.sgi.com/lm     (415) 933-1804