From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 06:22:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08846 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:22:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peanut.readington.com (peanut.readington.com [207.207.198.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08831 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 06:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by peanut.readington.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA04872; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 08:24:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 08:24:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Martino To: Paul Missman cc: William Woods , John Kelly , Yves Holzgen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD versus LINUX In-Reply-To: <01bd73ed$96c6db60$0525a8c0@missmanp.sta.adelphia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Last I checked on a 2.0.33 kernel, no still only suppord about 250 connections. Chris -- Chris Martino chrismar@readington.com On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Missman wrote: > Here is one answer: > > On one network, about 1976, we used to have about 20 Linux boxes. > > However, after a change in the Linux network software for some > other improvements, if I remember correctly, we started having > problems. Everything would be fine up to about 250 client > connections per box. After that, the OS would become unstable, > drop connections, etc. Fixing those > problems was a low priority with the Linux folks at the time, so > we switched all the Linux boxes to FreeBSD. No problems after > that. So, if you had large numbers of TCP/IP connections per > box, FreeBSD became the way to go > > Paul Missman > > P.S. Linux may have since corrected those problems, but I don't > think we are going to switch back now. > > > >> > > > >I am kinda interested in the answer too....I just switched to > FreeBSD but would > >like a little more realistic answer......I know lots of > professionals that use > >linux.......how about some REAL differences. > > > >> > > > >> On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:10:58 +0200, "Yves Holzgen" > >> wrote: > >> > >> >We already use LINUX system. What are the main difference > between Linux and > >> >freeBSD ? > >> > >> "Amateurs like Linux, but professionals prefer FreeBSD." > >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message