Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:36:58 EDT From: TM4525@aol.com To: ryans@gamersimpact.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd and performance Message-ID: <102.524a9310.2ea8347a@aol.com>
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In a message dated 10/20/04 9:19:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ryans@gamersimpact.com writes: >> If those things are taking a while to be there, does fbsd have any >> kernel patches like linux does to improve desktop performance? For >> example like: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ > >Lord, I hope not. One of the reasons I dislike Linux (and there are >many) is how much independent, unofficial, hard-to-find, incompatible, >and distribution specific development goes on. If you have patches that >would benefit the project, why not submit them? Well, realize that linux "patches" are kludges that you don't want in the O/S proper. "speeding desktop performance" does things like bypass much of the stack, assuming that the box isn't going to route. Linux has "performance features" such as panicing if a single packet doesn't have "headroom" for a protocol header, because they don't want to do the check.
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