I did some benchmarking to find the CPU overhead of data transfer. Here is the draft of what I found. https://gist.github.com/4144871 https://gist.github.com/4

I did some benchmarking to find the CPU overhead of data transfer. Here is the draft of what I found. https://gist.github.com/4144871 https://gist.github.com/4144871 I was able to saturate a 100 Mbps LAN link with netcat. IIRC CPU was at 70%.