Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:42:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: didier@omnix.net, zenin@archive.rhps.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, support@yard.de Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD (performances) Message-ID: <199808202142.OAA26941@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp4sv7aape.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" at Aug 20, 98 04:18:21 pm
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> > when I'm running FreeBSD and Linux on the same machine (Pentium II) > > on this application, FreeBSD is 3.5 times faster than Linux > > This sounds a little extreme. Of course, we like to believe that > FreeBSD is faster than Linux, but a threefold increase in performance > is too good to be true. Blame it on differences in configuration. This is the "Yard" thing, where 100 byte packets fly in FreeBSD when TCP_NODELAY is set on the server. The thing that is killing Linux is their delayed ack implementation. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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