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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:05:35 +0200
From: Roberto Nibali <ratz@tac.ch>
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Hello,

Thank you for those interesting tests.

> Some optimizations were used for linux, including zerocopy,
> IRQ affinity, and interrupt delay for the gigabit cards,
> and process affinity for the smbd processes.

Why is ext3 the only tested journaling filesystem that showed
dropped packets [1] during the test and how do you explain it?

[1]: http://lse.sourceforge.net/benchmarks/netbench/results/\
     august_2001/filesystems/raid1e/ext3/4p/droppped_packets.txt

Regards,
Roberto Nibali, ratz

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