Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: uucp to hundreds of sites Message-ID: <14699@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 11 Feb 88 06:54:35 GMT References: <253@amanue.UUCP> <9499@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 14 In article <9499@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > The overhead of starting uucico, locating a remote with data to >transfer, and placing the call is about 1500ms. The steady state cpu >load is about 6% at 9600, about 2% at 2400. The amount of time needed to find work using UUCP increases exponentially with the number of jobs queued, and that's mostly time searching and sorting the UUCP work directory. Yes, you can start one job to one site in 1.5 seconds. It won't be anywhere near that when you've got 100 or more jobs queued. It will also be highly dependent on the disk used. Steady state of 6% is for sending only; receiving saturates the 386 boxes I've used to 100% instantly.