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Benchmarking the Scalability of BSD and Linux
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."
I knew when I read the post that this would lead to another FreeBSD v. Linux flamewar, despite the author's claims of 'hoping' to end those.
I don't think using 5.1-CURRENT is a problem, but the way the benchmark results were layed out was begging for a flamewar. As I explained earlier the results are not as bad as either linux fanatics, or FreeBSD fanatics would have it. It would have been simple to avoid such flamewar (or am I too optimistic?) by doing two things:
Explain the status of both (linux 2.6 and FreeBSD 5.1) development branches - as I have outlined in my earlier post. If you take into consideration what I have written above, than you would have realized that results for FreeBSD are not that bad, in fact, they are excellent.
Include results for 4.8 - or 4.9 rc3 (but I would be happier with just the production release) in the test, just as 2.4 was included on the linux side.
To sum up: I believe that these benchmarks confirms what I thought for a long time: FBSD 5.1 development is on par with Linux 2.6. Perhaps this was the reason for his last "Or may be not" remark.