Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

[Peter Samuelson]

  [me]
> > So the real question is, how many gettimeofday() per sec can Linux
> > do?

[Larry McVoy]
> Oh, about 3,531,073 on a 1Ghz AM thunderbird running 
> Linux disks.bitmover.com 2.4.0-test5.

So, at two "context switches" (Jeff's term) per syscall, we're
somewhere around half the speed of Netware's longjmp.

Not bad. (:

Peter
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