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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 15:44:58 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 19 Message-ID: <31E80ACA.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <x7687w1dsr.fsf@oberon.di.fc.ul.pt> <4s220u$nmq@symiserver2.symantec.com> <31E53C2B.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com> <4s6k8o$4o0@fox.ksu.ksu.edu> <31E6FD92.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8cuq$ljd@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <31E7C0DD.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8tcn$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45124 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4030 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23499 Larry McVoy wrote: > It's kind of fun to contrast this with the Linux crowd: > > BSD guys: "your benchmark sucks! your numbers are wrong! you mislead the > world! you suck! whine!" > > Linux guys: "Hey Larry, the null syscall benchmark is busted because we can > do a null syscall in about 1 usec. You need to change it so > it times in nanoseconds". > I think that was a kind-of cute situation. We decided NOT to special case the syscall that Larry uses for the null-syscall case. Oh, by the way... another excellent strawman from Larry!! John