Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 01:19:43 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> Subject: Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070526010751.3835E-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <4656F863.20302@seclark.us>
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On Fri, 25 May 2007, Stephen Clark wrote: [..] > >>He has been comparing the 6.1 system to 4.9 system for a couple of weeks > >>and continues to insist the 6.1 version is much slower. [..] > In subjective tests R&D has done using the following setup we see "no" > problem: > > freebsd+firefox <--100mbs lan---> 6.1 network appliance <----T1 > link----> internet > freebsd+firefox <--100mbs lan---> 4.9 network appliance <----T1 > link----> internet > > One of our testers has the same setup but is using winblows/ie in place of > freebsd+firefox and subjectively says the 6.1 system is slower than the > 4.9 system. > > I was just wandering if there were any tunables that might cause this. Not to be too flippant, but is your win(what?)/ie tester tunable enough to encourage into doing some objective, repeatable, illustrative tests? Clearing browser caches and such before switching between systems, etc? Cheers, Ian
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