Lennart rightfully pointed out that I didn't really make any conclusion as to the results of my little test, the reason for this is really, "I'm not sure ( Read more... )

Talking to sjoerd and others on IRC, (for the benefit of the OLPC project), I decided to attempt to get some kind of an idea of the amount of traffic Avahi generates on a large network.

I booted up 80 UMLs, running 2.6.20.2, on my AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ (O/C to 2.5GHz per core), with 2GB of ram.

Each was running with 16M ram, a base debian etch ( Read more... )