[Lse-tech] Re: Linux 2.4 Scalability, Samba, and Netbench

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:30:35PM -0500, Andrew M. Theurer wrote:
> I do have kernprof ACG and lockmeter for a 4P run.  We saw no
> significant problems with lockmeter.  csum_partial_copy_generic was the
> highest % in profile, at 4.34%.  I'll see if we can get some space on
> http://lse.sourceforge.net to post the test data.

Maybe you should try Kernel 2.4.4 (with Zerocopy TCP/IP) and Anton's
sendfile for samba patch.  A copy of the latter was posted to lkml - see
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.3/0484.html,
even if that maybe be unusable to due html crappieness.

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.