Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:20:28 -0600 | Subject | Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks! | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[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. (:
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