From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 21:13:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.microbsd.net (ns2.microbsd.net [4.23.122.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B08B37B405; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:13:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from microbsd.net (mobile.microbsd.net [4.23.122.60]) by ns2.microbsd.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEA82EB; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:24:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C018888.7060508@microbsd.net> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:10:48 -0500 From: KERBERUS User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011123 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sign me up Greg, I would love to assist, I also have performance tuned many systems even in a very secured state, just to get the last ounce out of them. Id be hapy to read/review on the results anyone has. Greg Lehey wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message