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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:32:35 +0530
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux kernel and FreeBSD neck and neck?
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> I recently read than the linux 2.2 kernel pretty much evened the TCP/IP
> performance difference between Linux and BSD.  Now i read somewhere that the
> 2.4 kernel is expected to match BSD pretty much across the board.  Is there
> anywhere where BSD is still head and shoulders above in performance?  Are
> there any projects in the works besides SMP that wmight give us a leg up
> again?

From what I've read (second hand info, I haven't checked it) SMP
was the one thing where linux was clearly ahead of BSD.  In nearly
everything else, the BSD's (FreeBSD, at least) are ahead, even
of linux 2.4, by varying margins. 

Linux can't be too bad at tcp/ip if it runs sites like google and
deja.com.  On the other hand, I don't think the 2.2 kernel matches BSD
in that.  2.4 is supposed to have severe problems with memory
management, one of the things holding it back from release.  From what
I've seen on machines I've used, 2.2 definitely isn't as good at
memory management as FreeBSD either. 

Rahul.


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