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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Re: Installation of X11R4 on apollo
Message-ID: <101020027@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 7 Mar 91 21:51:14 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> You shouldn't try to use UDS for X.  UDS has bugs related to the size of
> messages you pass through it.  Besides which, it's actually slower than TCP.

Under SR10.3, UDS is faster.   Prior to SR10.3, UDS was indeed slower than TCP.

In the pskq2_91 release of the borrow mode server /etc/Xdomain, we worked
around the writev() problem (sum of iovs > 128k).

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com