Subject: Re: Why is Samba so much slower on NetBSD than FreeBSD?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 10/23/1998 20:00:14
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 09:23:49AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>  > Note that the elink3 driver doesn't say anything when the fifo
>  > overflowded.
> 
> Uh, let's add a printf?

Doesn't that just make the problem worse by slowing down the kernel
every time a packet is lost?  Well, maybe it doesn't affect a PC too
much, but scrolling the console on an Amiga, or Sparc (or any gfx-only
display) isn't too fast..

  -jm