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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.aimnet.com!ossi.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm 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 Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 15 Jul 1996 21:43:25 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4see1t$f0l@fido.asd.sgi.com> 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> <31E80ACA.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45341 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4064 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23678 John S. Dyson (toor@dyson.iquest.net) wrote: : 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. As has been pointed out, neither did Linux. So perhaps you might just ask yourself, how come Linux is doing so much better? -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804