Re: Linux syscall speed -- was X15 rootin-tootin webserver

["Dan Mann" <daniel_b_mann@hotmail.com>]

I followed the link and read the article.  I am glad you sent the link.  I
am glad to see the Linux kernel doing so well.  Does anyone else have any
Linux Kernel benchmark related links that are interesting?

Thank You,

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rothwell" <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Linux syscall speed -- was X15 rootin-tootin webserver


> There seems to be a contingent of people on the LKML who think that it
> is appropriate to flame people off-list, in order to bask in their own
> superiority, or prove that they are smarter by pointing out that someone
> is an idiot, etc. I would figure that most intelligent people would
> simply ignore posts they don't like, rather than investing time and
> bandwidth compounding the perceived offense. But I'm apparently too
> optimistic on that point; any group of people the size of the LKML will
> always contain some juviniles. A great many of us have suffered their
> attention.
>
> -M
>
> On 04 May 2001 11:21:48 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > In message <988856961.6355.1.camel@gromit> you write:
> > > According to tests performed at IBM:
> > >
> > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rt1/
> > >
> > > Linux's sycalls are a little more than twice as fast as those of
Windows
> >
> > This post was pretty much a waste of space, wasn't it?
> >
> > > 2000. 0.75usec vs 2.0msec.
> >
> > That would be 2,666 times.
> >
> > Rusty.
> > --
> > Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK
>
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