Re: How can I help ?
Lennie,
There's all sorts of interesting tweaks you can do to Linux to fine-tune
its network behavior via /proc. I suggest you look into it.
Regards,
Alex.
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, L. Besselink wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
>
> > Lennie,
> >
> > Can you give me any more details than just that Linux I/O performance is
> > inferior to *BSD?
>
> not much :/
>
> All I can show is from my own experience.
>
> Some time ago, I 'replaced' my home firewall 486 Debian installation with
> OpenBSD (just to try it out a bit) and it improved my network performance
> dramatically (no I don't have hard facts at hand). I think it has/had
> something to do with mtu discovery or something, because I'm connected
> with an @home cable modem and to be honest there systems have had problems
> in the past and still do and with OpenBSD I think it's been doing a lot
> better job, somehow. I think it's mtu discovery because sometimes if the
> cable is down, I get back cutdown ping's to the gateway. So some of it
> get's trough but not all somehow, it's really strange. Also this new OS
> seems more speedy then the previous, although I can not back this with
> facts either (I forgot to run something like bonnie to find out).
>
> Also I keep reading on the Linux kernel mailinglist that they are not too
> happy about current performance yet. ;) So maybe this also says something
> as I'm sure they have a good view on things.
>
> Did this help ?
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alex.
> >
> <snip>
> Same to ya,
> Lennie.
>
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