Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:30:37 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Multithreaded TCP/IP stack |
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 01:18:28PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
I have been told by multiple software venders (and from sun) that solaris does not have a multi-threaded TCP/IP stack, therefor if your software spends almost all it's time in the stack (router/firewall/load balancing/other low level stuff) buying a SMP box gains you very little performance. I tend to believe this as these are the folks who would be selling the more expensive SMP box if it was better :-)
I don't know if this is true -- but under high network load, Solaris (2.6) does appear to perform better than Linux 2.2.x last time I looked into this.
--cw
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