Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:27:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, Matthew Hagerty <mhagerty@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS Message-ID: <20010617212721.42453.qmail@web11402.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106162223350.16715-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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But how much tuning is needed? You can download a kernel patch for VM, another kernel patch for FS... I am sure Linux can be even faster on an SMP machine with a Journaling FS (XFS, RFS, JFS, ext3, etc). Rayson --- Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> wrote: > This is not really a "hardcore networking app" but a custom app > written by > the person who did the benchmark. The main reason that FreeBSD came > in > last was mostly because the guy didn't mount his filesystem > correctly. > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Here is a surprisingly unbiased article comparing OSes running hard > core > > network apps. The results are kind of disturbing, with FreeBSD > (4.2) > > coming in last against Linux (RH), Win2k, and Solaris (Intel). > > > > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm > > > > The tests were performed against the TCP/IP implementation on these > > > platforms with different system calls. File systems tests (EXT2 > for Linux, > > UFS for FreeBSD and Solaris, and NTFS for Windows 2000) were > performed by > > creating writing, and reading 10,000 files in the same directory, > > increasing the file size from 4K to 128K. Tests of various network > > > applications based on number of simultaneous connections, > process-based vs. > > thread-based, and sync vs. async connection handling were also > performed. > > > > Hope it might be helpful to you... > > > > Matthew > > > > > > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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