Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269306AbUIHS45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:56:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269310AbUIHS45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:56:57 -0400 Received: from [81.23.229.73] ([81.23.229.73]:45007 "EHLO mail.eduonline.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269306AbUIHS4h (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:56:37 -0400 From: Norbert van Nobelen Organization: EduSupport To: Ram Chandar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Routing Performance inferior? Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:56:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com> In-Reply-To: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409082056.33684.Norbert@edusupport.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1536 Lines: 38 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/