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

[James Lewis Nance]

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