> > > sendfile() isn't zero-copy, it's just two-less-copies. > > zero-copy means "zero copy-operations within memory" > > To an MCSE, maybe.
strange ... It's interesting that Dr. Scient Paal Halvorsen that recently finished his thesis about the subject 'Memory buffering / caching in multimedia streaming systems'. This has the following description The INSTANCE operating system enhancements show great improvements for multimedia streaming. In this thesis, we want to look at buffering/caching/prefetching mechanisms suitable for multimedia streams combined with the INSTANCE zero-copy data path. See http://www.ifi.uio.no/~paalh/index2.html for more info hm Am I an idiot here or have someone else misunderstood? -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message