Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:29:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux kernel and FreeBSD neck and neck? Message-ID: <20000728102959.J17222@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000728124727.A58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:47:27PM %2B0100 References: <20000728124727.A58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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* j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> [000728 04:51] wrote: > > 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? Is that how linux gets its performance? hearsay? I now declare that a i386 box running FreeBSD is faster than a 64 CPU onyx, I don't have benchmarks available right now, but if you can bear with me for a while... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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