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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:28:51 -0800
From:      "EB" <busto@sbcglobal.net>
To:        "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <000001c177de$54f3bf70$0100a8c0@ensh>
In-Reply-To: <3C018888.7060508@microbsd.net>

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I'd be interested in the results, as well as potential for tuning that
may not be "general knowledge" (i.e. not mentioned in tuning(7)).

Regards.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of KERBERUS
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 4:11 PM
To: Greg Lehey
Cc: developers@FreeBSD.org; FreeBSD Hackers
Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

Sign me up Greg, I would love to assist, I also have performance tuned 
many systems even in a very secured state, just to get the last ounce 
out of them. Id be hapy to read/review on the results anyone has.

Greg Lehey wrote:

>I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team.
>
>He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will
>involve FreeBSD.  He's just been doing some performance testing, and
>while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates
>:-), he's noticing some significant performance differences,
>particularly on the TCP/IP area.
>
>He is going to be sending me a copy of his preliminary report later
>today, and he doesn't mind sharing it.  I'm a little concerned about
>the "Them vs. Us" attitude such a report could cause.  He's not out to
>show that Linux is better than FreeBSD; on the contrary, he would be a
>lot happier if the results were in favour of FreeBSD, since otherwise
>he has to do something about it.  I'd like a few of us to take a look
>at what he's done first, and either point out where he can tune the
>FreeBSD system, or how to find and eliminate the bottlenecks.  Who's
>interested?
>
>Greg
>




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