Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 01:56:14 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: grog@lemis.com, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com>
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700
"Nate Williams" <nate@yogotech.com> wrote:
>
> FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new
> occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test
> platform. I recently updated it to FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, and I'm getting
> nothing but complaints about broken connections, poor performance, and
> very inconsistent results.
>
> They are now considering installing Linux on this box with the hope that
> they can get consistent results. (Unfortunately, FreeBSD 3.X is out
> because I convinced them that we needed to upgrade to 4.X due to
> security measures, so we can't go back.)
And they somehow think any variant of Linux is going to be better on
this point? My recent experience with Linux would say otherwise,
but that was on an Intel Architecture Labs variant that is somewhat
out of date, too.
> Note, some of the performance issues were made better by disabling the
> TCP newreno implementation, but it's still poor and very inconsistent
> for hosts not on the local network, while the Linux box next to it gets
> much more consistent results.
Ick.
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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