From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 13 09:27:01 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA15375 for current-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 09:27:01 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA15365 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 09:27:00 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA01992; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:26:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:26:01 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9506131626.AA01992@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel & some basic UNIX pointers In-Reply-To: <199506130350.NAA06987@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199506130350.NAA06987@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: > The context switches don't stop zmodem from being faster than the kernel ppp > even when the packet sizes are large. Zmodem doesn't have to do any context switches in order to operate. IIJ-PPP by definition does. Kernel PPP does not. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant