Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269314AbUIHTDO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:03:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269310AbUIHTDN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:03:13 -0400 Received: from cpc2-sout5-5-0-cust135.sot3.cable.ntl.com ([81.110.110.135]:54541 "EHLO teh.ath.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269314AbUIHTB7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:01:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:01:57 +0100 From: Matt Kavanagh To: Ram Chandar Cc: LKML Subject: Re: Linux Routing Performance inferior? Message-ID: <20040908190157.GA2109@teh.ath.cx> Reply-To: Matt Kavanagh References: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:06:17PM +0530, Ram Chandar 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? Seems to be pretty much just biased conjecture IMO. I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of FreeBSD having (in some situations) significantly better routing performance than linux in the same situation..but getting me to believe that would require proper, objective benchmarks. All from a user's perspective. - 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/