From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 18 19:32:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D7F37B401 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA08549; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:32:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA26512; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:32:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA26506; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:32:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:32:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Rayson Ho Cc: Matthew Hagerty , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS In-Reply-To: <20010617212721.42453.qmail@web11402.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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