From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 21 16:44:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9920A14F88 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from workstation.etinc.com (port23.netsvr1.cst.vastnet.net [207.252.73.23]) by etinc.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA17480; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:43:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903220043.TAA17480@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 19:55:40 -0500 To: Amancio Hasty From: Dennis Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet revisited Cc: Matthew Dillon , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903211853.KAA49975@rah.star-gate.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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