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SubjectRe: incoming packet latency in 2.4.[18-20]
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Have you tried a more recent kernel?

Matt H.

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:45 am, Chris Friesen wrote:
> There is an issue with incoming packet latency in the kernels mentioned.
>
> It seems that if you send in a burst of messages, the amount of time it
> takes to wake the listening process is dependent on the size of the
> message burst. 2.4.18-2.4.20 all show this behaviour, 2.6 doesn't.
>
> Some numbers for a udp message size of 2 bytes:
>
> 1 packet, average latency 12 usecs
> 10 packets, average latency 66 usecs
> 100 packets, average latency 477 usecs
>
> Is this a known issue? Is there an easy way to fix this, or is it
> something inherent in the 2.4 architecture?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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