Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:55:41 +0800 From: David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> To: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> Cc: "Freebsd-Net" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance Message-ID: <01295542.20010323085541@21cn.com> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLEEPKDMAA.jonathan@graehl.org> References: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLEEPKDMAA.jonathan@graehl.org>
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Hello Jonathan, Friday, March 23, 2001, 3:12:19 AM, you wrote: JG> Interesting topic in the linux kernel mailing list (Linux is "a lot" faster than JG> FreeBSD): JG> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#2 JG> I came to use FreeBSD from Linux for servers because of kqueue. I stayed JG> because I liked the entire system. I'm sure that Linux does TCP processing as JG> fast as possible, and that in-kernel servers (NFS and the TUX webserver) are JG> blazingly fast. JG> I do have Linux 2.4 running on an old machine, but I have no intention of taking JG> down my FreeBSD box to dual boot Linux just to compare penis size. Has anyone JG> recently done so? JG> -- JG> Jonathan Graehl JG> http://jonathan.graehl.org/ I can confirm Linux 2.4 TCP/IP is faster than FreeBSD, they have dynamic tuned TCP window, unlike we have a fixed max TCP window set in SYSCTL. they have SACK and FACK, it is better in high speed line than FreeBSD, it is also multi-threaded, better on SMP, someone despise Linux should wakeup now, Linux is not so bad. -- David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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