Optimizing sockets to 1000 requests/sec? (Was: Sockets and messaging services)

[Paul Rubin]

Duncan Grisby <dgrisby at uk.research.att.com> writes:
> This isn't a direct comparison, but I've done some experiments with
> CORBA calls using omniORBpy. I did some tests with two 500MHz Pentium
> 3 machines running RedHat 6.2 Linux, connected by 100Mbit/s switched
> Ethernet.
> 
> With client and server on the same machine, communicating via TCP
> loopback, I get:

If it's on the local machine, why mess with TCP at all, instead of using
AF_UNIX?  I'm not sure whether the OP intended to run locally tough.