Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 17:00:44 EDT From: Bsdguru@aol.com To: jandrese@mitre.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <18.d428b5e.283ed07c@aol.com>
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In a message dated 05/23/2001 5:04:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jandrese@mitre.org writes: > > > > 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. I dont know, but I doubt it. the problem isnt the networking preformance, its the inability of the memory system and the ethernet drivers to handle overloads properly. They are modeled in a way that fails in practice. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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