Messages in this thread | | | From | Norbert van Nobelen <> | Subject | Re: Linux Routing Performance inferior? | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:56:33 +0200 |
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BSD is known for good network performance, however I don't know benchmarks. I think the difference is to big: The routing/IP stack combined being 10 times less efficient is too much.
They also don't mention which linux kernel they use. Reading the FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf they did some optimasations which are probably not advisable if you don't use your box as a router. The goal of this person is as far as I can see to build a router only, so in theory you could build in the same optimasations in network stack of linux
Also look at page 11: The fastforwarding is a solid positive step on how a router should work. So even the performance of FreeBSD is not considered like a real router OS.
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 19:36, you wrote: > Quoted from a recent mail to freebsd mailing list. > > "FreeBSD (5.x) can route 1Mpps on a 2.8G Xeon while > Linux can't do much more than 100kpps" > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-September/004840.html > > Is this indeed the case? > > Ram Chandar. > -- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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