From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 23:28:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2DC37B416 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:28:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ensh (adsl-64-175-244-207.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.175.244.207]) by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fAS7Skx266262 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:28:46 -0500 From: "EB" To: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" Subject: RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:28:51 -0800 Message-ID: <000001c177de$54f3bf70$0100a8c0@ensh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3C018888.7060508@microbsd.net> 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'd be interested in the results, as well as potential for tuning that may not be "general knowledge" (i.e. not mentioned in tuning(7)). Regards. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of KERBERUS Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 4:11 PM To: Greg Lehey Cc: developers@FreeBSD.org; FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message