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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 10:16:18 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        bsdi-users@bsdi.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.com
Subject:   Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960521101333.4739B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199605202119.OAA28500@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Mon, 20 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > SDLComm has a new PCI card called the RISCom/Pri.  Primary rate has 23
> > 64Kbps B-Channels.  I wonder how many cards can be put into a P90 box
> > running BSD Unix before the compression overloads the CPU? 
> 
> The RISC CPU you mean.. dunno.

Probably what I should've meant.  I'm not sure how the processing would be
divided between the card and the host CPU.
 
> > How heavy is the computational load of something like STAC compression?
> 
> As a percentage of CPU: depends on your CPU.
> 
> As a percentage of file I/O overhead: ~17%, assuming average cache
> locality, degrading to ~36% for cache-busting (like IOZone).  This
> was on a 486 DX/2-66, so your mileage may vary.
> 

-mh




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