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Date:      Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:10:48 -0500
From:      KERBERUS <kerberus@microbsd.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?
Message-ID:  <3C018888.7060508@microbsd.net>
References:  <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com>

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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
>




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