Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal memory leakage fix and feature enhancement

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 14:32:07 +0200
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> The two changes in question cut the CPU time spent reading in the
> capture file in question from 36.12 seconds to 3.25 seconds - and the
> loop that reads in that list appears to be CPU-bound (my disk makes
> little noise, probably because the entire file fits in memory, and
> remained cached); the wall-clock time in a test (somewhat crude,
> went from 35 seconds to about 4 seconds.
> 

My own stress-test shows that (Linux PII 350) :

From: 208.98user 0.81system 3:38.89elapsed 95%CPU

To:     3.88user 0.42system 0:14.49elapsed 29%CPU

That sounds like a really great performance improvement.

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