Investigating the zero copy performance, forked from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-zerocopy/ Simple tests: Using traditional copy bytes send--54123305 and totaltime in Millisecond--7167 bytes send--54123305 and totaltime in Millisecond--7830 bytes send--54123305 and totaltime in Millisecond--6607 Server using zerocopy on ubuntu 11 total bytes transferred--54123304 and time taken in Millisecond--4719 total bytes transferred--54123304 and time taken in Millisecond--4712 total bytes transferred--54123304 and time taken in Millisecond--4960 total bytes transferred--54123304 and time taken in Millisecond--4790