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David Xu wrote:
> 
> Linux 2.2 is known slow at TCP/IP throughput,
> but did you test Linux 2.4?  it is very different.
> while Linux and FreeBSD are being improved, some guys here
> are still comparing FreeBSD with Linux 2.2, it's unfair, useless
> and waste time. please stop doing such a stupid thing!
> 

You should look into the tests at www.measurement-factory.com
that Jonathon refers to before calling them "stupid."  At
the time of these tests, Linux 2.4 was not released.

Alan

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