This is not really a "hardcore networking app" but a custom app written by
the person who did the benchmark. The main reason that FreeBSD came in
last was mostly because the guy didn't mount his filesystem correctly.
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Here is a surprisingly unbiased article comparing OSes running hard core
> network apps. The results are kind of disturbing, with FreeBSD (4.2)
> coming in last against Linux (RH), Win2k, and Solaris (Intel).
>
> http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm
>
> The tests were performed against the TCP/IP implementation on these
> platforms with different system calls. File systems tests (EXT2 for Linux,
> UFS for FreeBSD and Solaris, and NTFS for Windows 2000) were performed by
> creating writing, and reading 10,000 files in the same directory,
> increasing the file size from 4K to 128K. Tests of various network
> applications based on number of simultaneous connections, process-based vs.
> thread-based, and sync vs. async connection handling were also performed.
>
> Hope it might be helpful to you...
>
> Matthew
>
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