Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.news,net.dcom Subject: Re: 2400 baud modems and uucp inefficiencies Message-ID: <1020@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 10:36:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.1020 Posted: Thu Oct 4 10:36:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 04:43:52 EDT References: <412@vortex.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 6 Actually, there's a very serious inefficiency in many uucps. Because packets are being received in raw mode, the receiving process can be awakened on every *byte*, do a 1 or 2 byte read, then try to read some more. This sort of behavior can eat a machine alive! There have been several attempts to fix this (and System V uucps don't have the problem), but not all of them work well.