From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 21: 8:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2B837B416; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3A8F77856B; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:38:17 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:38:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates :-), he's noticing some significant performance differences, particularly on the TCP/IP area. He is going to be sending me a copy of his preliminary report later today, and he doesn't mind sharing it. I'm a little concerned about the "Them vs. Us" attitude such a report could cause. He's not out to show that Linux is better than FreeBSD; on the contrary, he would be a lot happier if the results were in favour of FreeBSD, since otherwise he has to do something about it. I'd like a few of us to take a look at what he's done first, and either point out where he can tune the FreeBSD system, or how to find and eliminate the bottlenecks. Who's interested? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message