no, I tinkered a lot with my server (freeing up memory), which obviously
helped somewhat and increased socket buffers to 256k max., makeing i/o
more chunky and thus more efficient. i also use more than one reader
thread: under linus' kernels more than one thread made the situation
worse, on the ac kernels they seem to slightly improve throughout, up to a
point.
> > no longer thrashing. And linux does the job nicely ;)
> Good, but should we rest on our laurels now?
well, linux-2.4 has a lot of dark corners that need improving, but the
machine does no longer totally misbehave (4 or 5 mb/s is debatable, but
2mb/s with more memory and higher load is not ;). it's now acceptable to
me ;)
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