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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.
Date: 2 Mar 1996 19:22:18 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

> : ``large'' overhead is certainly an overstatement, unless you're going
> : to put your news server on a 386sx/16.
> 
> I measured the amount of time spent in a regular NNTP feed spent
> in namei. It's 69% of the time needed to process an article.

Wall clock or CPU time?

-- 
cheers, J"org

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Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)