From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 23:50:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA3537B405; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:50:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [::1] (helo=homer) by homer.softweyr.com with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1690Vq-0007YW-00; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:56:14 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:56:14 -0700 From: Wes Peters To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: grog@lemis.com, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-Id: <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 "Nate Williams" wrote: > > FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new > occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test > platform. I recently updated it to FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, and I'm getting > nothing but complaints about broken connections, poor performance, and > very inconsistent results. > > They are now considering installing Linux on this box with the hope that > they can get consistent results. (Unfortunately, FreeBSD 3.X is out > because I convinced them that we needed to upgrade to 4.X due to > security measures, so we can't go back.) And they somehow think any variant of Linux is going to be better on this point? My recent experience with Linux would say otherwise, but that was on an Intel Architecture Labs variant that is somewhat out of date, too. > Note, some of the performance issues were made better by disabling the > TCP newreno implementation, but it's still poor and very inconsistent > for hosts not on the local network, while the Linux box next to it gets > much more consistent results. Ick. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message