Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:49:00 +0100
From: Philippe Regnauld <none@regnauld--deepo.prosa.dk.lh.bsd-dk.dk>
To: bsd-dk@hotel.prosa.d
Subject: Re: {Free,Net}BSD
Søren Klintrup writes:
> Maybe it IS time :)))
>
> anyone have some links where *BSD is compared to linux ? i'm thinkin' about
> Network performance as a firewall/router... As far as i remember FreeBSD
> should handle lots of connections more efficient than Linux ... but i might
> not be correct ???
Well, the TCP/IP code in FreeBSD (being BSD) has been tested
and optimized for a much longer time (which also means it looks
kind of weird :-) -- most ISPs will prefer BSDI/FreeBSD/*BSD over
Linux for the net perf.
Also, a recent posting (I'll dig it up) showed Linux's VM to be
of a cleaner design, (FreeBSD's is much more complicated), but
Linux stills falls over when it starts swapping heavily.
(Anyway, the rule is: don't swap -- buy more RAM :-)
> We're about to upgrade our firewall in a 1100 user complex and network
> performance is ofcourse of some importance here :)
Depends on which (or all) of the three you do:
- packet filtering
- NAT
- proxy (i.e.: application level) relaying
Also, the speed of your link...
> if theres any links/documents on this subject ??
>
> anyone who can confirm this ??? (or maybe the opposite :)
I have a 2.2.7-R box running as a packet filter, two ethernets
(internet side = 512 KBps), with an estimated 300~400 users,
and this is the average load right now (K6-200, 64MB RAM):
12:58PM up 63 days, 1:37, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.10, 0.06
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