From: chas williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:00:20 -0400 [...] while most is good, afs does run on quite a few platforms not listed. i have no idea how aix, hpux (despite its bsd lineage), dux, and nt handle this. tcp connections also consume more resources than a single udp socket.
The fact that people run web servers on all of the platforms on earth and care about performance pretty much kills the idea that TCP is expensive or slow. The only question is the amount of effort to recode AFS for RX-with-better-performance or blah-via-TCP. [Aside: NT has killer mechanisms to deal with large numbers of TCP connections: i/o completion ports, inherited from VMS.] i might also add that tuning tcp is not really a simple matter either :) It's a lot more well understood than RX. Larry _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
