Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:57:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Maciej Zenczykowski <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] add a config option for -Os compilation |
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> OK, so the applications are limited to /sbin/iptables, /sbin/route, /bin/ > netstat, and maybe dhcpd and/or zebra. They're still applications, even if they > end up invoking a lot of kernel resources on their behalf.
/sbin/iptables and /sbin/route are merely configuration interfaces to the kernel proper, not really familiar with netstat - but as far as I know all it does is dumps kernel runtime configuration and statistics. That's 3 utilities which are no way apps - just interfaces. Now dhcpd is an app and zebra is an app - but they are still mainly kernel oriented. The first 3 depend only on kernel speed and the next 2 depend mostly on kernel speed. I'd say you just proved how important kernel optimilization is for routers.
Cheers, MaZe.
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