From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 22 21:38:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from filk.iinet.net.au (syncopation-dns.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48A8837B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 16500 invoked by uid 666); 23 Mar 2001 05:39:46 -0000 Received: from i079-100.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.79.100) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 05:39:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABAE10C.691E0177@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:37:16 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Graehl Cc: Freebsd-Net Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathan Graehl 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? which BSD did they try? what Network cards? etc. etc. > > -- > Jonathan Graehl > http://jonathan.graehl.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message