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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!maui.cc.odu.edu!news From: Ragnar <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD As News Server Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:01:05 -0500 (EST) Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951113165735.9815C-100000@tsunami.cs.odu.edu> References: <47o7v6$4pt@nntp.interaccess.com> <MICHAELV.95Nov7232119@mindbender.headcandy.com> <DHqB6t.LDD@nntpa.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tsunami.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <DHqB6t.LDD@nntpa.cb.att.com> On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, John S. Dyson wrote: > >NetBSD and FreeBSD will handle this better than Linux for two reasons: > >1) more robust networking code, and 2) more efficient NFS server. > >Number 2 may have been addressed by now, but 1 is still being worked > >on. > > > FreeBSD also has a dynamically sized buffer cache that helps tremendously > in many situations. Linux WILL lock up TOTALLY (i.e., hard reboot) under heavy network load...FreeBSD uses my SMC card full tilt boogie without problem or error. Linux just crashes, hard. Supposedly the new Linux kernels have better network performance nad are more robust, but I don't really care to find out. Jamie If Zeno's paradox is true, then how did he get halfway there in the first place?