Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:15:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:14:55 -0500 Received: from smtp.primusdsl.net ([209.225.164.93]:18191 "EHLO mailhost.digitalselect.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:14:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:15:54 -0500 From: James Lewis Nance To: Hans Reiser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD? Message-ID: <20010301121554.A861@bessie.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3A9D891C.434E3AA7@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A9D891C.434E3AA7@namesys.com>; from reiser@namesys.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:26:20AM +0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:26:20AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of > implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. > > They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it > is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? > > Can I tell them not to worry about the Linux networking code strangling their > webcache product's performance, or not? Hi Hans, I dont have an answer for you, but it would be nice to know the answer. Would it be difficult to measure this? It should not be difficult to make a machine dual boot Linux and BSD, and then we can measure the differences. If there is a significant performance difference either way then we can try and investigate it to see why. Thanks, Jim - 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/