Re: Unix domain sockets being slooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:49:44 -0500 (EST)

I think there's a minimum packet length over ethernet that is killing you
with overhead. I think it's 64 bytes. If you have a 1-byte semaphore, you
are only using about 1/64th of the available data bandwidth.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
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