Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:46:29 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011128104629.A43642@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:41:18AM -0700 References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com>
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:41:18AM -0700, Nate Williams 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. > > FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new > occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test > platform. Someone recently submitted a PR about TCP based NFS being significantly slower under 4.X. I wonder if it could be related? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/32141 There is quite a lot of detail in the PR and the submitter has no trouble reproducing the problem. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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