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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!insync!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 21 Jan 1997 11:05:23 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5c341j$3dp@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153661 comp.os.linux.networking:65791 comp.os.linux.setup:93412 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5680 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1970 In article <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu>, Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote: >J.C. Archambeau (jca@bighorn.accessnv.com) wrote: >]preferrential to BSD. It also seems the FreeBSD is more solid that >]Linux in the networking department. > > I see this claim now and then. Can you post some specific data, comparing > Linux and BSD networking ? I see this claim regularly to, and I recently tried to investigate it. Unfortunately, I have found only one Linux user who is willing to give me any statistics on NFS performance, and his network and server were heavily loaded. Under NetBSD on 486-class machines (Alpha Multia, Sparc IPX), I get 300-400K/sec writing NFS v3 and 920 K/sec reading. I expect that the writing performance would improve with faster servers and clients; I do not think the read performance will improve at all, since even on significantly slower machines (Sparcstation 1) I get similar read performance (though worse write performance). I hope to do some testing with more powerful machines soon. My current results of disk and NFS testing with bonnie are available in <http://www2.portal.ca/~cjs/computer/benchmark/> Under Linux, last time I had direct experience with it I saw 50-100K/sec read and write performance under NFS. The person I talked to more recently, with the heavily loaded network and servers, saw 150-200K/sec performance for read and write. If anyone out there has better figures (preferabily bonnie output, along with descriptions of the machines and whether this is NFS v2 or NFS v3), I would love to see that information. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.