Re: [RESEND] tuning linux for high network performance?
From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <hidden>
Date: 2002-10-23 13:29:16
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The e1000 can very well do hardware checksumming on transmit. The missing piece of the puzzle is that his application is not using sendfile(), without which no transmit checksum offload can take place.
As far as I've understood, sendfile() won't do much good with large files. Is this right? We're talking of 3-6GB files here ... roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/ Tel: +47 9801 3356 Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.