From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 22 11:19:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689A637B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:19:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2MJJqB08930; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:19:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:19:52 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathan Graehl Cc: Freebsd-Net Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance Message-ID: <20010322111951.W9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jonathan@graehl.org on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:12:19AM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Jonathan Graehl [010322 11:13] wrote: > Interesting topic in the linux kernel mailing list (Linux is "a lot" faster than > FreeBSD): > http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#2 > > I came to use FreeBSD from Linux for servers because of kqueue. I stayed > because I liked the entire system. I'm sure that Linux does TCP processing as > fast as possible, and that in-kernel servers (NFS and the TUX webserver) are > blazingly fast. > > I do have Linux 2.4 running on an old machine, but I have no intention of taking > down my FreeBSD box to dual boot Linux just to compare penis size. Has anyone > recently done so? I can tell you that Linux kernel NFS is only about 3 years old, when introduced it was terrbily buggy and didn't do NFSv3 or tcp mounts. We just found an annoying interoperability (sp?) bug in it less than a month ago. However, Linux is also a lot faster than FreeBSD, it also scales better than Solaris, renders faster than IRIX, and makes your hair fall out faster than HPUX. It slices and dices and leaps tall IPOs in a single bound. It's kept simple so that "over-engineered" things like kqueue aren't brought in, but a full fledged webserver in kernel space is... because... uh because... Scuse me, I need to go post on slashdot or something... -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message