From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 16:58:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23041 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (phobos.illtel.denver.co.us [207.33.75.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23033 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:58:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA23832; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:58:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:58:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Terry Lambert cc: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , didier@omnix.net, zenin@archive.rhps.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, support@yard.de Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD (performances) In-Reply-To: <199808202142.OAA26941@usr04.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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