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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:52:56 -1000
From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment
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> I admit I am surprised by how much a difference there is, it should
> be just Tread and Rread headers shouldn't it?

If you have high latency or high bandwidth, the maximum message
size for the 9p messages will be too small to keep the pipe full
if you're using read serially. Did you take a look at how much
bandwith was actually in use during your tests?

> -Steve

Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com