Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 13:14 -0700, Danial Thom wrote:
>  
> Thats a pretty crappy controller you have in with
> that shiny P4...

Shrug.  It's a grocery store desktop box, and I'm quite happy with it,
but that has roughly zip to do with the price of tea in China.

> I'm not sure that they want the tools to work.
> They'll just call you a troll and go on
> developing unnecessary things like NAPI because
> they're still using controllers designed by DEC
> (remember them?) back in the stone ages. 
> 
> Yet I regularly encounter people using cheap NICs
> with expensive cpus on network-intensive
> applications. But you'd think one or two people
> would have a clue.

As does that.

	-Mike

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