Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:46:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Jonathan Fortin <jfortin@akalink.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article Network performance by OS Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106162345400.2056-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <006701c0f6b9$dd6d89e0$3fac6395@alink>
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Jonathan Fortin wrote: > Linux is tuned out of the box, where the others are tuned for > stability. Not quite. Linux distributions tend to be extremely conservative in the IDE options (DMA, interrupt unmasking, write caching, etc. all disabled) while FreeBSD seems to have write caching and DMA on by default... Both systems have tuning out of the box in different ways. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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