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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Matthew Hagerty <mhagerty@voyager.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Article: Network performance by OS 
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106182231270.25567-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010617212721.42453.qmail@web11402.mail.yahoo.com>

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It's a lot faster on writes with softupdates enabled. FreeBSD will also
have journaling filesystems soon. Either way, this was not a very good
benchmark.

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Rayson Ho wrote:

> But how much tuning is needed? You can download a kernel patch for VM,
> another kernel patch for FS...
> 
> I am sure Linux can be even faster on an SMP machine with a Journaling
> FS (XFS, RFS, JFS, ext3, etc).
> 
> Rayson
> 
> --- Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
> > This is not really a "hardcore networking app" but a custom app
> > written by
> > the person who did the benchmark. The main reason that FreeBSD came
> > in
> > last was mostly because the guy didn't mount his filesystem
> > correctly.
> > 
> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> > 
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > Here is a surprisingly unbiased article comparing OSes running hard
> > core 
> > > network apps.  The results are kind of disturbing, with FreeBSD
> > (4.2) 
> > > coming in last against Linux (RH), Win2k, and Solaris (Intel).
> > > 
> > > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm
> > > 
> > > The tests were performed against the TCP/IP implementation on these
> > 
> > > platforms with different system calls.  File systems tests (EXT2
> > for Linux, 
> > > UFS for FreeBSD and Solaris, and NTFS for Windows 2000) were
> > performed by 
> > > creating writing, and reading 10,000 files in the same directory, 
> > > increasing the file size from 4K to 128K.  Tests of various network
> > 
> > > applications based on number of simultaneous connections,
> > process-based vs. 
> > > thread-based, and sync vs. async connection handling were also
> > performed.
> > > 
> > > Hope it might be helpful to you...
> > > 
> > > Matthew
> > > 
> > > 
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