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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!news13.agis.net!agis!newsgod1.agis.net!agis!news4.agis.net!agis!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dciteleport.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com!news@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com 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 Lines: 23 Sender: tjevans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com Message-ID: <m2zq05dkvy.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> References: <87pw1jarx5.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <56vb5k$k8j@news1.iamerica.net> <32993EA8.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: evans.raleigh.ibm.com In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:28 -0800 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 > 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