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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:18:11 +0200
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: [Question] Explanation of zero-copy networking
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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> However, PCI to memory copying runs at about 300 megabytes per
> second on modern PCs and memory to memory copying runs at over 1,000
> megabytes per second. In the future, these speeds will increase.

That would be "big expensive modern PCs" then.  Our clusters of 700MHz
boxes are strictly limited to 132 megabytes per second over PCI...

-- Jamie