Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

Todd
2001-03-01T04:26:19Z

hans,

we've found that the TCP and UDP performance on 2.4 is *dramatically*
better than 2.2. with the acenic gig-e driver on PIII-933 UP (66MHz x
64bits PCI) we are getting 993 Mb/s with 2.4.0 with jumbo frames (about
850 Mb/s with standard ethernet frames). the best number we got with 2.2
was about 650 with jumbos and 550 with standard.

i'd recommend it's networking performance to anyone.

todd underwood
todd@unm.edu

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser wrote:

> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 02:26:20 +0300
> From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
> To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?
>
> 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?
>
> Hans
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