From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 15:29:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99B716A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 395DC43D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 48667 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jan 2006 15:29:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=WEYzrUCXDDyx68O063JJ/gaAR4lYsYt9tEjIGlTG/LJX55TbvbaFsf4fONsPYi/SR9wxMYFuvPTCoAFdwvRlqqwxleJosscCALytQ9rLfqJFFwAFrcs2Oo8ysNOVfgdmzxy0v9y3Kd85FfXOCTj+d57dgQBfhzIgYRsYazPtcJc= ; Message-ID: <20060111152926.48665.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.46.186.215] by web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:29:26 PST Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 07:29:26 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom To: Marcin Jessa In-Reply-To: <20060111151133.236856a4.lists@yazzy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd router X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:29:27 -0000 > There is an article I would like you to read > before going any further: > http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ You know I just read a bit more of this; this is better than reading the morning comics! What a bunch of useless "tests" and wrong conclusions. He's using a UP system, and says linux 2.6 scales fabulously. Well in truth, linux 2.6 will start dropping packets at a much lower traffic level than 2.4 will. They've made trade-offs in 2.6 that no longer make packet reception a preemptive task (which gives audio-type application more controllable access to the kernel). The worst part is that there is no way to fix it. So linux 2.6 is, IMO, completely unusable for a large scale router. But if you plan on checking the cpu cycle clock a few million times a second, then I'd follow his results to make your business decisions! LOL __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com