From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 28 10:31:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1039237B75A for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6SHTx202800; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:29:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux kernel and FreeBSD neck and neck? Message-ID: <20000728102959.J17222@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000728124727.A58850@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i 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 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * j mckitrick [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