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connections and sockets. Finally, the STREAMS framework has been restructured to
allow more efficient opening and closing of TCP/IP sockets.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released SPECweb96,
a standardized benchmark for comparing web server performance. The benchmark is
designed to provide comparable measures of how well systems can handle HTTP
GET requests. SPEC based the work load on analysis of server logs from Web sites
ranging from a small personal server up through some of the Internet’s most-popular
servers. Built upon the framework of the SPEC SFS benchmark, SPECweb96 can
coordinate the driving of HTTP protocol requests from single- or multiple-client
systems. For the latest Solaris 2.6 SPECweb96 submissions and more information on
SPECweb96 benchmarks, please visit the SPEC web site:
http://www.specbench.org.
Kernel Sockets
The kernel sockets implementation provides improved compatibility with SunOS
TM
4.x and BSD sockets, enabling higher socket performance.
TCP Large Windows
TCP large windows provides the support described in RFC1323. It is designed to
improve performance over high bandwidth networks such as ATM, or high-delay
networks such as satellite links, by expanding the amount of data that can be
outstanding in a TCP session from 65535 bytes to approximately 1 Gbyte.
Zero Copy TCP/Hardware Checksum
Zero copy TCP/hardware checksum functionality can be used to increase TCP
throughput in certain situations. It does so by avoiding the copying of data and by
using hardware checksum logic in the network interface when available. Currently,
the only network interface that contains the hardware checksum logic is the SunATM
622 interface.
For more information, see Transport Interfaces Programming Guide.
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Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997