From owner-freebsd-net Fri Mar 23 0:44:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tango.SoftHome.net (tango.SoftHome.net [204.144.231.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71C6D37B71B for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:44:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asr@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 640 invoked by uid 417); 23 Mar 2001 08:56:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO softhome.net) (203.129.230.100) by r-softhome-smtpa-231 with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 08:56:31 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:21:24 +0530 (IST) From: "Ashutosh S. Rajekar" X-Sender: asr@vangogh.org To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Recently there was a culomn in byte.com by Moshe Bar, and his tests seemed to show that FreeBSD-4.1.1 could still beat the Linux 2.4.0 kernel. The test machine was a 2-way SMP machine, running the a giant locked FreeBSD-4.1.1 kernel and also a fine-locked 2.4.0 Linux kernel. Here's the link: http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010130S0010 On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, 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? > > -- > Jonathan Graehl > http://jonathan.graehl.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > --------------------------------------------------------------------- ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ (\ Ashutosh S. Rajekar `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) Indra Networks Pvt. Ltd. (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' Pune, INDIA. _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' mailto: asr@softhome.net (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' http://www.rajekar.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message