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List:       netfilter-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] IRC bi-directional DCC connection tracking
From:       Daniel Stone <daniel () sfarc ! net>
Date:       2001-06-19 13:08:39
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:59:44AM -0300, Harald Welte wrote:
> > > As referring to the 'slow down', Daniel. I wonder how many megabits of 
> > > IRC traffic (the server connection, not dcc) you have, when it already 
> > > slows down your machine.
> > 
> > It's not so much "how much traffic", as "how badly loaded the awful machine
> > is" ;). Obviously it wouldn't slow it down, but if you ran a large server
> > with stacks of people IRCing ...
> 
> forget about your machine's load. On a heavily loaded machine, of course
> depending on the workload, usually I/O, your harddrive, and lots of other
> factors are limiting. Do you really have a constant 100% cpu usage? And 
> if yes, how many microseconds you would loose for the average IRC packet
> rate you have? 
> 
> I don't think that it would have any even measurable impact.

Definitely not for my machine, but if I was hosting a large number of users
...

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Daniel Stone						     <daniel@sfarc.net>
<Nuke> "can NE1 help me aim nuclear weaponz????? /MSG ME!!"

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