From: Norbert van Nobelen <Norbert@edusupport.nl>
To: Ram Chandar <rcknl@qz.port5.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Routing Performance inferior?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:56:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409082056.33684.Norbert@edusupport.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409071000.58455.rchandar-knl@qz.port5.com>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-08 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 17:36 Linux Routing Performance inferior? Ram Chandar
2004-09-08 17:58 ` William Stearns
2004-09-08 18:41 ` Nathan Bryant
2004-09-08 19:21 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-09-08 18:56 ` Norbert van Nobelen [this message]
2004-09-08 19:01 ` Matt Kavanagh
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