Re: Unix domain sockets being slooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.CSIRO.AU)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:02:28 +1100


Richard B. Johnson writes:
> 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.

He was talking about Unix domain sockets, not Internet sockets.

Regards,

Richard....