From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 09:55:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96EA316A400 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:55:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D72C13C461 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:55:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so815646nfc for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:55:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V7GYCdBQuvnTQvdsX4URIsGaHOfu1y70FHGenBLogvn2jUBdZKwAmPJk7Gj1T+uNedFxqVWXulikLhvF0TcEIoejisgdpp79Uxv+4iDAKgg8nI4IIoxApe1htZF0lPXt47RJAQbUruuMKpIoCP7oHHElBe7ewF/STcOxcfvtKew= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o1UuU6lDW9eu+OdIUumNMxy3Yf1p0VGgLRyNdly5HJqSuuUIFVr1QF5ztD/dY21AbXzCOiUFZijWD1qalWKHnD8QfOBQhUm8DGuBrQCfv/a5k2ioqY6iatCMRSg7NvBgyNgNYXP4VmWIhdPwRTp2s73VsDgsW1W12W7Dl7RT/Gg= Received: by 10.82.154.2 with SMTP id b2mr508782bue.1172741299532; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.151.15 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 01:28:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 01:28:19 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Peter Losher" In-Reply-To: <45E54619.7000503@isc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070224215508.GA41968@xor.obsecurity.org> <45E13410.7020505@he.iki.fi> <20070225071946.GA48242@xor.obsecurity.org> <45E14BAD.80909@he.iki.fi> <20070225084737.GA49231@xor.obsecurity.org> <5a0a9d6f0702260936u3408f8d8rd4cde9234b2f7776@mail.gmail.com> <45E54619.7000503@isc.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UDP performance. X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:55:07 -0000 > We recently put a stock Fedora Core 6 and a stock FreeBSD 6.2 on the > same HW (HP ProLiant DL320 G5 Dual Core Xeons w/ 16GB RAM) and running > BIND 9.4.0 and a well known ccTLD zone that we slammed a query stream > to. On a single threaded BIND, there was a 20% advantage to Linux, on a > multi threaded build, Linux trounced FreeBSD (39k to 89k queries/sec) > > There's also been other analysis done by Marcelo Amarai @ Registro.br > that was posted to freebsd-net back last September. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-September/011748.html> I have a couple of dual Woodcrests running back-to-back over multiple 10GigE cards that I'd like to do performance testing with. Did you use the same testing methodology as Marcelo? If not can you go into more detail on your setup and how to reproduce? -Kip