Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:12:23 -0700 | From | Nivedita Singhvi <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance? |
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bert hubert wrote:
> I still refuse to believe that a 1.8GHz Pentium4 can only checksum > 250megabits/second. MD Raid5 does better and they probably don't use a > checksum as braindead as that used by TCP. > > If the checksumming is not the problem, the copying is, which would be a > weakness of your hardware. The function profiled does both the copying and > the checksumming.
Yep, its not so much the checksumming as the fact that this is done over each byte of data and copied.
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