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 > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. > http://buzz.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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