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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!news.nstn.ca!newsflash.concordia.ca!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!cunews!not-for-mail From: shaver@neon.ingenia.com (Mike Shaver) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Followup-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 13 Jul 1996 14:47:54 GMT Organization: Slacker Software Services Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4s8cuq$ljd@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <x7687w1dsr.fsf@oberon.di.fc.ul.pt> <4s220u$nmq@symiserver2.symantec.com> <31E53C2B.41C67EA6@inuxs.att.com> <4s6k8o$4o0@fox.ksu.ksu.edu> <31E6FD92.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: neon.ingenia.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45090 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4023 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23467 John S. Dyson (toor@dyson.iquest.net) wrote: : He made a claim that BSD networking is not as fast as Linux, specifically : using the no-load latency figure. He posted numbers to back up his claim that a given Linux was faster than a given *BSD under a given load state on given hardware. Are you disputing that fact? Would you be so kind as to let us se the numbers which enlightened you as to the results of the One True Benchmark. : Please refer to : my posting that I suggest that this is degrading so far, that Linus has tried : a run of three connections :-) to show scalability. Please read his posting in which he says that you _could_ run a couple lat_tcps in parallel, which wouldn't do much, but you'd at least get some context switch overhead in there. (Linux's context switches seem to be pretty peppy as well, though. =) ) : Time to really benchmark : the thing. Please do! Of course, you might have trouble finding a benchmark that everyone agrees is `meaningful'. Although you might possess the arrogance to declare what `most FreeBSD users' consider meaningful, I'm almost certain Linus will let the Linux community speak for itself. Mike -- #> Mike Shaver (shaver@ingenia.com) Ingenia Communications Corporation <# #> Chief System Architect and Herder of Bits <# #> <# #> "Yoda say, `Just slap a little public key crypto into it' does not <# #> a secure system make." -- Marcus J. Ranum (mjr@clark.net) <#