Lennie, There's all sorts of interesting tweaks you can do to Linux to fine-tune its network behavior via /proc. I suggest you look into it.
Regards, Alex. --- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: EFD1 AC6C 7ED5 E453 C367 AC7A B474 16E0 758D 7ED9 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCM d- s:+ a--- C++++ UL++++ P L+++ E W++ N o-- K- w O--- M- V- PS+ PE- Y PGP t+ 5 X- R tv+ b DI--- D+ G e-- h++ r--- y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, L. Besselink wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > Lennie, > > > > Can you give me any more details than just that Linux I/O performance is > > inferior to *BSD? > > not much :/ > > All I can show is from my own experience. > > Some time ago, I 'replaced' my home firewall 486 Debian installation with > OpenBSD (just to try it out a bit) and it improved my network performance > dramatically (no I don't have hard facts at hand). I think it has/had > something to do with mtu discovery or something, because I'm connected > with an @home cable modem and to be honest there systems have had problems > in the past and still do and with OpenBSD I think it's been doing a lot > better job, somehow. I think it's mtu discovery because sometimes if the > cable is down, I get back cutdown ping's to the gateway. So some of it > get's trough but not all somehow, it's really strange. Also this new OS > seems more speedy then the previous, although I can not back this with > facts either (I forgot to run something like bonnie to find out). > > Also I keep reading on the Linux kernel mailinglist that they are not too > happy about current performance yet. ;) So maybe this also says something > as I'm sure they have a good view on things. > > Did this help ? > > > > > Regards, > > > > Alex. > > > <snip> > Same to ya, > Lennie. > > ------------------------------------- > New things are always on the horizon. >
