Re: TCP/IP send, sendfile, RAW

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 18:42 +0000, Roy Rietveld wrote:
> i tried but it doesn't help, still 40MBits. Does send or sento cost a lot of 
> cpu load.

That depends a lot on your hardware: Each UDP or TCP packet has to be
checksummed  and loaded onto the network chip so there is memory
bandwidth used. There is also some CPU load but they are not horribly
complex code paths. Much of the performance depend son the network chip

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