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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why are some apps so slow?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:32:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0609230632q6913251cx57dba00b17adc3f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40609221321w3dd7dc55m6747aa3c67d057cd@mail.gmail.com>

> Anyone actually studied this? Anyone considered replacing this with, say,
> put/get rpcs that do it all? In some cases there are multiple read (or write),
> rounds, but many times, I see the 4 rpcs just to get a bunch of bytes.
> This was a concern for us while using omero across slow network links.

Of course, one easy solution to this is to keep the file descriptor
open for more than one read or write.  Then it's just one round trip.

Russ


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22  5:31 John Floren
2006-09-22  5:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-09-22  6:08 ` Anselm R. Garbe
2006-09-22 11:43 ` erik quanstrom
2006-09-22 13:49 ` jmk
2006-09-22 15:02   ` C H Forsyth
2006-09-22 20:21   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-09-23 13:32     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-09-23 13:47       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-09-23 14:55         ` Russ Cox
2006-09-23 15:00           ` Francisco J Ballesteros

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