From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 22 11:25:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17CE37B71D for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:25:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f2MJLiv24251; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:21:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:21:44 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200103221921.f2MJLiv24251@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: jonathan@graehl.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-net In-Reply-To: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article you write: >Interesting topic in the linux kernel mailing list (Linux is "a lot" >faster than >FreeBSD): >http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#2 Yeah, I read this; it basically ended with the author of the GigE card making unsubstantiated claims that Linux is "much" faster than FreeBSD. Without more solid information, this is basically FUD. I'm sure that by picking the appropriate benchmark, you can end up showing whatever results you want. Note that iMimic claims to run on a standard FreeBSD platform, which would also imply they use kqueue; this alone can probably provide the 2x performance boost you see on polygraph. >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? Not recently. I suppose I should try 2.4 sometime and see exactly what has improved. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message