From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: James Lewis Nance <jlnance@intrex.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
brian jenkins <bjenkins@thresholdnetworks.com>,
dave hecht <dhecht@thresholdnetworks.com>,
Nikita Danilov <god@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:38:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9E972D.CEA149B0@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A9D891C.434E3AA7@namesys.com> <20010301121554.A861@bessie.dyndns.org>
James Lewis Nance wrote:
>
> 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
This is indeed what we should do if we get no answer from the list by someone
who has already done such work.
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-28 23:26 What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD? Hans Reiser
2001-03-01 4:25 ` Todd
2001-03-01 16:03 ` Hans Reiser
2001-03-01 17:04 ` Nathan Dabney
2001-03-01 18:36 ` Hans Reiser
2001-03-01 19:16 ` David Weinehall
2001-03-01 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-02 4:57 ` David L. Parsley
2001-03-01 19:22 ` Nathan Dabney
2001-03-02 9:02 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-03-02 13:00 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-03-05 8:09 ` Re[2]: " linuxjob
2001-03-02 14:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01 17:17 ` God
2001-03-01 18:04 ` Lincoln Dale
2001-03-01 10:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01 17:15 ` James Lewis Nance
2001-03-01 18:38 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2001-03-01 19:25 ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-03-01 23:30 ` Hans Reiser
2001-03-01 20:26 ` kuznet
2001-03-02 3:05 ` linuxjob
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