From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 18 03:18:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50ADD16A400 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 03:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from todor.dragnev@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77B143D45 for ; Thu, 18 May 2006 03:18:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from todor.dragnev@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x29so3085nfb for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:18:00 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OSaEZE49i3nJE3okHd/6i5K/gUqSk5vMMEbtFbrGfwtNplefjTWl8jCe3Z8CM790fO9xpZUWpX5vNrlOhcwpz6n6M2/bZRF3iPDBLUpT7OCgvOdNampDghoNRdD46d1ESXq+S42hBgEDY5XwFI7PWp7ZAHD9V8Ae6R60ekBIBj0= Received: by 10.49.61.5 with SMTP id o5mr58170nfk; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.21.7 with HTTP; Wed, 17 May 2006 20:18:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 06:18:00 +0300 From: "Todor Dragnev" To: "Brian Candler" In-Reply-To: <20060517130057.GB5652@uk.tiscali.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060516194634.GA27871@kermit.bezda.com> <200605171230.20034.todor.dragnev@gmail.com> <20060517130057.GB5652@uk.tiscali.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pptp server and "how many clients" X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 03:18:02 -0000 On freebsd I use MPD + netgraph and have random drop or rejecting of connection when system is heavy loaded, can't reach more than 500 connections. On debian I use standard pptpd that come with distro. So, if someone have freebsd system with lots of pptp/pppoe users will be very usefull to share system settings or hardware information. On 5/17/06, Brian Candler wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:30:19PM +0300, Todor Dragnev wrote: > > Hi, I switched to linux-debian on the same hardware and now I have abou= t > > 550-600 users. > > > > ~# date > > Wed May 17 12:04:31 EEST 2006 > > :~# uptime > > 12:04:13 up 20:03, 421 users, load average: 1.67, 1.15, 1.03 > > ~# uname -a > > Linux hoptrop 2.6.15-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 9 13:47:21 EET 2006 i686 GNU/= Linux > > > > Users count for today: > > Max count: 677.0 > > Average count: 410.0 > > Current count: 420.0 > > > > With FreeBSD 5.4 I have load from 2 to 4 with for same count of users. = I'm > > very unhappy with this, because I love freebsd, but seems that linux wo= rk > > faster in this situation. > > Why are you unhappy? Just because one box says "load average 1.67" and > another says "load average 3.00" ? Or do you have direct evidence that th= e > network performance under FreeBSD is worse than under Linux? > > Also, what pptp implementations did you use in both cases? That is, are y= ou > comparing apples with apples? > --=20 There are no answers, only cross references