From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 19 12:11:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7D737B406 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.104.1.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.104.1]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11844; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B2FA3CD.BF6189B3@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:11:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bosko Milekic Cc: Matt Dillon , Rik van Riel , Matthew Hagerty , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS References: <200106162114.f5GLEEg02073@earth.backplane.com> <20010616172625.A8631@technokratis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Bosko Milekic wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:14:14PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > >[ .. ] but all this benchmark proves (in regards to the TCP > > results) is that FreeBSD puts its foot down earlier then > > other OS's in regards to how much it is willing to dedicate > > to the network. In a real life situation [ ... ] > > This is the best written paragraph on the issue in > this entire thread. This is exactly my philosophy toward > the whole thing. And I can tell you from previous dealings > with companies that use FreeBSD as their main platform that > this is one of the main reasons why. I would be _extremely_ surprised if registry entries were not tweaked in the NT case as part of the InstallShield installation. In other words, it's a lack of software layering, and the installation of everything by default that somewhat hamper FreeBSD's ability to automatically tune itself better, on top of some early architectural decisions that are coming back to bite us now. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message