Re: [securenfs-devel] Fixed timings in thread-test client

[Nathan Y. <na...@yo...>]

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 12:52, David Wolff wrote:

> Hmmm.. You make an interesting point.  I guess the question is, how does
> Linux handle a localhost socket connection?  As far as I know, it
> uses TCP/IP even though client and server are on the same host.  Hence
> my guess is that it is not just a communication over the bus.  The
> data may be routed through some kind of serial interface.  I'm guessing
> that we should expect slower performance than say just regular IPC.

True - good point.  I did some tests with other network services
(apache/sftp/ftp) and file transfer rates on a localhost connection, and
indeed i seem to transfer a 171 MB file in a little over a minute
(making for about 300K/sec) - so we may be on the right track.

> Yes, we definately should test it out with clients on different
> machines.  I've already done a little of that on my home network, but
> I haven't compared the results to localhost communications.

Cool - why dont we meet on Thursday and give this a shot? we can run it
on our office machines as well as the oracle machine and shemp itself...
should give us a pretty good idea of how things look.

> > I agree - Very good news! :-)
> > 
> Yeah!  Have a beer in celebration (hey any chance to celebrate eh?).

Celebration ;-) means more than just A beer hehe.  Sounds like a damn
good idea though, I think I will follow up on that.  

Later!
Nate