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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


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