From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 15:10:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA08037 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07990 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id RAA12727; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:08:50 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199603062308.RAA12727@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD comparison - it's time, I think! To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:08:50 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Ron G. Minnich" at Mar 6, 96 02:07:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I have a weakness in that I like real numbers. Can we quantify this? > > ron > > *LARGE* numbers of FTP users 1250 (wcarchive.cdrom.com) > > *HUGE* routing tables one of my poor little 8MB border routers got 14K routes installed before crying: mycogen# netstat -rn | wc 14154 84909 976437 mycogen# vmstat -m Memory statistics by type Type Kern Type InUse MemUse HighUse Limit Requests Limit Limit Size(s) routetbl 28370 3989K 3989K 3989K 43954 0 0 16,32,64,128,256 I expect that adding more memory (i.e. raising "Limit") would have allowed me to merrily add a couple zillion more routes, or at least enough to do real world stuff :-) > > *INSANE* HTTP performance dunno. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968