On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 20:09 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote: > So Redboot isn't a speed demon, I knew that, but pings to redboot take on > average 4 - 6 milliseconds. Pings to UNIX running on the same hardware take > .4 - .8 milleseconds. That is not quite 10x slower. I know Redboot is a > polled networking system but it doesn't have to context switch either. > What's up with that?
This is probably more about what else it's polling. RedBoot only polls the network device, and hence answers pings, as it's waiting for "console" input. Depending on the device you have, and the number of them if you are in "any console" mode, this can take a while between polls. -- Gary Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
