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Benchmarking the Scalability of BSD and Linux

Posted by michael on from the pedal-to-the-metal dept.

Fefe writes "I recently did some benchmarks for a talk about scalable network programming I held at Linux Kongress 2003. The benchmark results turned out to be surprising enough to present them on their own. This ought to end those pesky flame wars about whose IP stack or memory management scales better. Or maybe not."

3 of 433 comments (clear)

  1. So? by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So what if FreeBSD is fast? So's MS-DOS.

    --
    I have over 70 freaks, do you?
  2. Re:Open Source Software clearly superior by presroi · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The winner in this case is Open Source software.


    Hmm, lets count...

    Linux 2.6: GPL
    Linux 2.4: GPL
    FreeBSD: FreeBSD license..
    NetBSD: "the NetBSD Project uses a Berkeley-style license"
    OpenBSD: "OpenBSD strives to maintain the spirit of the original Berkeley Unix copyrights."

    So, could you please name the non-open source competitor in this benchmark? I could not find it.
    Thanks,
  3. An extended troll against OpenBSD by dmiller · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Using an unstable development version and then complaing about instability, peppering the results with emotive commentary and clueless rhetoric. (btw the 1024-cylinder boot restriction he complains so much about has been fixed for a while) Especially funny was this idiotic statement:

    OpenBSD also caused a lot of grief on the IPv6 front. The OpenBSD guys intentionally broke their IPv6 stack to not allow IPv4 connections to and from IPv6 sockets using the IPv4 mapped addresses that the IPv6 standard defines for thus purpose. I find this behaviour of pissing on internet standards despicable and unworthy of free operating systems.
    Someone should hit him with a cluestick on this issue. Yeah, like itojun is despicable and unworthy...

    OTOH, the results are of concern and should be verified by someone less obviously biased. I haven't noticed them in practice on moderately loaded servers though (but I'm biased in the opposite direction).