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How to receive a million packets per second
Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!"
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- 542
- HN comments
- 115
- Submissions
- 2
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- 9 commenters
Systems & PerformanceNetworking & Internet2015
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2015 | How to receive a million packets per second by _jomo | 542 | 86 |
| Jun 5, 2020 | How to receive a million packets per second (2015) by warpech | 96 | 29 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 10 Hacker News comments by 9 different people, from Oct 2015 to Oct 2025.
Most recent:
- JoachimSchipper · Oct 27, 2025
- bayindirh · Jun 2, 2022
- cmeacham98 · May 15, 2022
- scrubs · Mar 28, 2022
- ignoramous · Feb 4, 2022
- huijzer · Sep 7, 2021
