Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-22 Thread Alan L. Cox
> Note that iMimic claims to run on a standard FreeBSD platform, which > would also imply they use kqueue; this alone can probably provide the > 2x performance boost you see on polygraph. Yes, we do. In fact, the difference between FreeBSD and Linux is greater than 2x. On equivalent processors,

Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-22 Thread Alan L. Cox
David Xu wrote: > > Linux 2.2 is known slow at TCP/IP throughput, > but did you test Linux 2.4? it is very different. > while Linux and FreeBSD are being improved, some guys here > are still comparing FreeBSD with Linux 2.2, it's unfair, useless > and waste time. please stop doing such a stupid

Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance

2001-03-23 Thread Alan L. Cox
Jonathan Graehl wrote: > > What would it take to get Linus to give the nod to an implementation conforming > to the kqueue API? I remember him saying that he only wanted it to work for > file descriptors, and to only allow one kqueue per process - neither of which I > agree with. The abstractio