Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:36:02 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: "James C. Durham" <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111301634001.9908-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200112010032.fB10WIp55898@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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Wierd, on my Dual PII 300 I'm getting around 8MB/sec to an 800MHz athlon. The athlon is using a 3com 905b I believe, and the PII is using an intel fxp type card. Granted this is from my living room to my bedroom so that may be part of what I see. Also, the Dual PII is running -STABLE as of a week ago, and the Athlon is running -CURRENT as of about a week ago. Ken On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, James C. Durham wrote: > (snip...a large number of postings regarding slow performance by 4.x > kernels with TCP/IP) > > A friend who works for a local university and I tried moving large > files using variouis OS'es and hardware. These are FTP transfers > with file sizes from 100 to 300 megabytes.. > > The conclusion we arrived at was that the TCP performance of FreeBSD > 4.x and Linux is aproximately the same and that processor speed > makes the most difference. In one case, a fast laptop with 16 bit > pcmcia NIC did poorly. > > Moving large files on 100mb/s ethernet backbones gave the folowing > results... > > Dual 800 mhz PIII processors with Linux 6.1: > 10mB/s. > > Sunblade 100's: > 10mB/s. > > Single 1.4ghz processors (noname box)with 3C905 NICS, > FreeBSD-stable (June 2001).: > 9.5 mB/s. > > In the case wehere we had only one machine of a type, we > used the dual 800mhz machines as a "sink"...with the following > results (this is probably questionable): > > Dual 333 Linux 5.1 5mB/s > > Pentium 350 III with 3C905 NIC, Linux 5.1: > 2mB/sec > > K6-2 400 with smc NIC, Linux 5.1: > 2.8mB/sec > > Dell 500mhz PowerEdge with 4.3 with 3C905 NIC to HP Netserver PII 266, > both running 4.3-RELEASE: > 3.0 mB/sec. > > Dell 500mhz PowerEdge with 4.3 to Dell 850mhz laptop running > 4.4 with Dlink PCMCIA ethernet card: > 1.0 mB/sec. (caused by pcmcia NIC?) > > PIIMMX 200mhz box running 4.4-Relese with 3C905 to same Dell Laptop: > 500kB/sec. > > Unfortunately, we didn't have any 7.x Linux available or 3.X FreeBSD. > > FWIW... > > Jim Durham > > 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
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