From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 16 19:47:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from netbank.com.br (garrincha.netbank.com.br [200.203.199.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CD937B407; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 19:47:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riel@conectiva.com.br) Received: from surriel.ddts.net (1-100.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br [200.181.137.100]) by netbank.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B8346806; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:45:19 -0300 (BRST) Received: from localhost (yxxwvs@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by surriel.ddts.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5H2kwn19053; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:46:58 -0300 Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:46:58 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@imladris.rielhome.conectiva To: Jonathan Fortin Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article Network performance by OS In-Reply-To: <006701c0f6b9$dd6d89e0$3fac6395@alink> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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