Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, didier@omnix.net, zenin@archive.rhps.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, support@yard.de Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD (performances) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9808201657410.23356-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <199808202142.OAA26941@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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. On UDP-only Linux NFS implementation? -- Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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