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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.lan
Subject: CPU usage of telnetd
Message-ID: <10620@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 14:20:51 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 14:20:51 1986
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There's a vendor who wants to sell me an ethernet interface that looks
like a DMF serial interface. (actually, there's several of them) They
claim telnetd uses a lot of resources. I was dubious but then I used
the 'top' utility and saw a telnetd doing continous output at an
effective rate of 9600 baud uses 20% of a 780.

It sounds like the vendor is right. Any comments? Are there any
implementations of telnetd which are more efficient or is this just
inherent in the nature of the system?
-- 
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  present, and respect the past, knowing that once it was all that was
  humanly possible."

 Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720
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