6.x, 4.x ipfw/dummynet pf/altq - network performance issues

2007-02-07 Thread Justin Robertson
It was suggested I post this to freebsd-performance, it's already in questions, isp, and net. I've been running some tests with using FreeBSD to filter and rate limit traffic. My first thoughts were to goto the latest stable release, which was 6.1 at the time. I've since done the same test un

Re: WHT thread: FreeBSD vs. CentOS

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Vince
Scott I. Remick wrote: Just wanted to give those on the list a heads-up about this thread over on WebHostingTalk: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=563624 It's been going on a few months now. Apparently a number of webhosts are finding poor FreeBSD performance when compared with C