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| | Tux: Built for Speed eWEEK - Find Articles |
 | | The 60.7MB of static Web content was small enough to easily fit into RAM, so this benchmark primarily tested networking and thread management code, not disk-handling routines (we did have Web server logging enabled, however). |
 | | As mentioned, Tux's internal architecture is designed specifically for high performance, but that design is only one of five factors critical to its top-notch performance, according to Tux's primary author, Ingo Molnar, kernel development/systems engineer at Red Hat, in Berlin. |
 | | The other four areas are all features of the Linux 2.4 kernel and will speed up any Linux server application, not just Tux: zero-copy TCP/IP networking, interrupt and process CPU affinity, per-CPU kernel memory resources (called slab caches) and wake-one scheduling. |
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