But how much tuning is needed? You can download a kernel patch for VM,
another kernel patch for FS...
I am sure Linux can be even faster on an SMP machine with a Journaling
FS (XFS, RFS, JFS, ext3, etc).
Rayson
--- Kenneth Wayne Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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