Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:00:57 +0100 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: Todor Dragnev <todor.dragnev@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Michal Stepien <admin@bezda.com> Subject: Re: pptp server and "how many clients" Message-ID: <20060517130057.GB5652@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <200605171230.20034.todor.dragnev@gmail.com> References: <20060516194634.GA27871@kermit.bezda.com> <200605171230.20034.todor.dragnev@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:30:19PM +0300, Todor Dragnev wrote: > Hi, I switched to linux-debian on the same hardware and now I have about > 550-600 users. > > ~# date > Wed May 17 12:04:31 EEST 2006 > :~# uptime > 12:04:13 up 20:03, 421 users, load average: 1.67, 1.15, 1.03 > ~# uname -a > Linux hoptrop 2.6.15-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 9 13:47:21 EET 2006 i686 GNU/Linux > > Users count for today: > Max count: 677.0 > Average count: 410.0 > Current count: 420.0 > > With FreeBSD 5.4 I have load from 2 to 4 with for same count of users. I'm > very unhappy with this, because I love freebsd, but seems that linux work > faster in this situation. Why are you unhappy? Just because one box says "load average 1.67" and another says "load average 3.00" ? Or do you have direct evidence that the network performance under FreeBSD is worse than under Linux? Also, what pptp implementations did you use in both cases? That is, are you comparing apples with apples?
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