On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:13:01 -0800
Skunk Worx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've taken a performance hit over localhost between kernels 2.6.14 and 
> 2.6.15 in my client/server application.
> 
> I'm trying to gut things down to a simple test case, in the meantime, 
> this is what I've been discussing with the people at the fedora test list :
> 
> This is only over localhost (lo). Two machines running client/server 
> 2.6.15 over ether seem fine, as was 2.6.14.
> 
> 2.6.14 : about one or two recv() calls out of 48,000 take nearly 40 ms. 
> (no big deal--might add 80 ms. to a 20 second operation).
> 
> 2.6.15 : about 3,000 recv() calls out of 48,000 take nearly 40 ms. (adds 
> almost two minutes)
> 
>  From strace :
> 
> 15:27:04.568800 recv(3, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UT"..., 555, ) 
> = 555 <0.000121>
> 
> vs.
> 
> 15:18:24.515891 recv(3, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UT"..., 566, ) 
> = 566 <0.038414>
> 
> Will watch replies and post more when I know more. Kinda new at this.
> 

You need to not do small writes over the loopback interface.  If you
do big writes, then performance will be much better in all cases.
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