From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 28 5:55:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts11.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADDB37B416; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.149.34]) by tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011128135522.RLVT24249.tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:55:22 -0500 Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fASDl9U60099; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Nate Williams Cc: Greg Lehey , developers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? In-Reply-To: <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> Message-ID: 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 > 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. Most likely between 3.x and 4.4-REL the driver for the network card(s) that you're using got changed, and are now causing problems. Many drivers are now much more picky about media problems, so it would be wise to make sure that the hosts on the local LAN segment aren't a) filling the LAN with garbage from a bad cable, and b) the FreeBSD is hooked to the LAN with a good cable. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message