Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:55:40 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet revisited Message-ID: <199903220043.TAA17480@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199903211853.KAA49975@rah.star-gate.com> References: <Your message of "Sun, 21 Mar 1999 10:01:20 EST." <199903211449.JAA15387@etinc.com>
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At 10:53 AM 3/21/99 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> The most I've done with freebsd is ~52,000pps on a 200Mhz box... >> 66Mb/s throughput, but thats also as high as I've tried. The CPU >> doesnt even blink. Don't beat me up for this but you can send a >> LOT more packets from a Linux 2.2 box then you can from a >> FreeBSD one. > >Why can linux process more packets than FreeBSD? I dunno...."process" may not be the right term...but I have a traffic generator that simply submits packets via a socket ioct interface, and on the exact same hardware the FreeBSD.3.1 app does about 24000 pps and linux does 52000. There is no routing involved either, just raw writes. Dennis > > Amancio > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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