From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 30 21:09:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA6716A409 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:09:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ianchov@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C09243D6E for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:09:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ianchov@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m3so1832753ugc for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:09:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=F1Ag3XfgsZ4cYnC4PJQSWgYZ23aoKuzO+Dm4uoIZO0Nh5+EJ5oXSP/NWonz1+QWzuR86vBe+U6+1qapc5kTPCFQpaNbfCDMtr692eXQYl04vlglMAJDme2T49ihK6czbhRzRT4pWlc6tkOyBQ0Oj4pAgeHrtwLikqFjFM6NzgFg= Received: by 10.78.43.1 with SMTP id q1mr380994huq; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.16.16 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 00:09:29 +0300 From: "Iantcho Vassilev" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:09:38 -0000 Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: "I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside than VM games, and bigger caches will only continue to drive that point home." What do you think about it?