From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 14:08:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9783916A403 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:08:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (mail.qubeconnect.com [202.190.74.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C14B213C4A6 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:08:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 21419 invoked by uid 0); 28 Feb 2007 13:41:43 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.190.74.25) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2007 13:41:43 -0000 Received: from prophet.alphaque.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l1SDg1eg021870 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:42:01 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:42:00 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070228214200.60cc9b7a@prophet.alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <45E54619.7000503@isc.org> References: <20070224215508.GA41968@xor.obsecurity.org> <45E13410.7020505@he.iki.fi> <20070225071946.GA48242@xor.obsecurity.org> <45E14BAD.80909@he.iki.fi> <20070225084737.GA49231@xor.obsecurity.org> <5a0a9d6f0702260936u3408f8d8rd4cde9234b2f7776@mail.gmail.com> <45E54619.7000503@isc.org> Organization: Alphaque. Anytime. Anywhere X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: UDP performance. X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:08:54 -0000 On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:06:33 -0800, Peter Losher wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > > I agree in general, but MySQL performance is very exposed as an > > advocacy issue - it has traditionally been the source of statements > > like "FreeBSD's threading implementation is weak/bad/broken". > > And these days ISC can't consciously recommend FreeBSD for use on > high-traffic DNS servers because UDP performance has (frankly) gone > downhill since 5.x. > [..snipped..] > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-September/011748.html if UDP performance in 6.x and 7.x has dropped, this could even affect voip applications/servers such as asterisk when run on FreeBSD. most all use RTP for media traffic and RTP is nearly always UDP generating up to 50 packets per second per call per direction. 14,000+ packets per second is only about 140 calls. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+