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From: tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops?
Date: 26 Nov 1996 08:52:01 -0500
Organization: TCP/IP development
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In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:28 -0800
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> Thomas Evans wrote:
> > Interesting is the network performance of Linux is 3X FreeBSD, I plan
> > on running other UNIX benchmarks for fun!
> 
> More than interesting, this is almost unbelievable.  I'd be interested
> in knowing exactly what versions of everything you used and the
> benchmarks in question.  In particular, if you used the loopback device
> then you haven't actually tested network performance at all.
> -- 
> - Jordan Hubbard
>   President, FreeBSD Project





After a private discussion, Jordan confirm my beliefs that the IBM CC
Enet driver (if_ze) needs some work and hasn't been optimized. I've never
had a problem on other hardware.
-- 
Tom Evans 
tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com
Disclaimer: My views are my own, your mileage might vary, taxes are extra, etc