Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:58:44AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:

    Mount the server rsize=wsize=8192.  `cp' a 102,400,000 byte file
    from the NFS server to /dev/null.  The file is fully cached on
    the server.  unmount and remount the server between runs to
    eliminate client caching. The copy takes 8.654 seconds.  That's
    11.8 megabytes/sec.

What server are you using here? Using NetApp filers I don't see
anything like this, probably only 8.5MB/s at most and this number is
fairly noisy.

  --cw