Re: Outstanding pre-production issues and next dev. cycle...
Jon Tombs (jon@gte.esi.us.es)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:08:29 +0100 (MET)
David S. Miller said:
>
> 1) Performance:
> Can we get more performance out of networking?
> What other performance bottlenecks exist?
> What is being planned to resolve these issues?
>
> The performance of the TCP code rivals if not clearly beats
> "production OS's" even on the same hardware. Of course, the is always
> room for improvement always ;-)
Performance is generally pretty good.
The room for improvement is probably to do fragmentation faster and without
causing deadlocks in the memory managment. 8k NFS will cause lockup a 4-8MB
machine as soon as the machine in under any combined NFS and memory load.
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Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>