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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:46:56 +1100 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199612030133.UAA18131@jenolan.caipgeneral> from "David S. Miller" at Dec 2, 96 08:33:44 pm
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In some mail from David S. Miller, sie said:
[...]
> You can say whatever you want.  And whats more, I am told often by
> disgruntled Solaris performance engineers that lmbench is "bush
> league", that is perfectly fine with me.  My response is, if it is so
> bush leage, why is it so difficult for these systems to get better
> numbers than Linux?  Stay down.
> 
> And watch out, I have gigabit ethernet and FDDI coming very soon as
> well.  SGI cannot even touch my bandwidth and latencies over 100baseT.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------////
> Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & ////
> 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s   ////
> ethernet.  Beat that!                     ////
> -----------------------------------------////__________  o
> David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><

Why is it that whenever you pop your head up onto NetBSD or FreeBSD you
look like a jerk waving the Linux flag and trying to cause trouble ?

Tell me, does Linux implement STREAMS in the kernel with a properly stacked
network implementation, using DLPI and TLPI with fine grain mutexes and
locks ?