From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 23 14: 4:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C09937B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:04:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21444 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06843 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:04:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nausicaa.mitre.org ([128.29.105.85]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GDT3V400.AGR; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:04:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:56:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andresen,Jason R." To: Cc: Subject: Re: technical comparison In-Reply-To: <84.1653a8bf.283d7bfc@aol.com> Message-ID: <20010523155538.D87720-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> 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 On Wed, 23 May 2001 Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > > Tell them to fire 20K packets/second at the linux box and watch it crumble. > Linux has lots of little kludges to make it appear faster on some benchmarks, > but from a networking standpoint it cant handle significant network loads. > Are you sure this is still true? The 2.4.x series kernel was supposed to have significant networking improvements over the previous kernels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message