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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hpax!cupnews2.cup.hp.com!raj From: raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux. TCP and NFS performance? Date: 4 Apr 1997 21:54:24 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard's Network Computing Division Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5i3tag$djk@hpindda.cup.hp.com> References: <3338c02c.178408318@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <33396813.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <5hq253$bfl@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <33426ea3.35446782@netnews.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: raj@cup.hp.com NNTP-Posting-Host: hpindio.cup.hp.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2.10] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38508 Tim White (osas@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : On 1 Apr 1997 04:15:30 GMT, raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones) wrote: : >And if you happen to run netperf, the netperf database would love to : In fact I have compiled several bandwidth tools under FreeBSD at the : same shop(including Netperf)..we wanted to use netperf because it had : the more professional look but the manual was thicker...;=) So we use Darn, I knew I should not have written that manual :) happy benchmarking, rick jones folks should remember to run latency tests in addition to bandwidth - for instance, I suspect that much of NFS is more latency sensitive than bandwidth sensitive...