Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:04:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Wade <mwade@bluehighway.net> To: Jay West <jwest@classiccmp.org> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SysV IPC message queues performance Message-ID: <20020724120243.O76216-100000@bluehighway.net> In-Reply-To: <008901c23322$cdf0f320$9701a8c0@HPLAPTOP>
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jay West wrote: > At one point I saw a program on the net that did benchmarks on a given > system of sending the same data via message queues, sockets, pipes, etc. but > I can't seem to find it anymore. The long and short of my question is - are > SYSV IPC message queues on FreeBSD (or in general) known to be fairly slow? > If only on freeBSD, is there anything that can be tweaked to speed them up? > If not, or if they're just slow on all implementations, can someone suggest > which of sockets, pipes, etc. are known to be awfully fast? I believe the book "UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications" by W. Richard Stevens has a section and code dedicated to measuring IPC latency and thruput. --- Mike Wade (mwade@bluehighway.net) Blue Highway Labs, LLC. Office: (423) 634-7746 Cell : (423) 580-2440 AIM : BHmwade To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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