[ale] NT 5.0

[Mike Nelson]

Have a look at http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Gigabit for
benchmarks of Linux2.0.29 vs FreeBSD. Stock Linux beats stock
FreeBSD, but a patched version of FreeBSD was best.
Looks like around 100-120 Mbps on a single 200 MHz Ppro
Also benchmarks comparing Linux PPro clusters to IBM Sp2 and
SGI's Power Challenge. 
-M


On 04-Dec-97 bdixon at panda.gtri.gatech.edu wrote:
>> Side note on traffic performance in NT vs the people who know better
>> (unix-ites), I read in PC Week that more and more MIS people are
>> finding that NT can't handle gigabit ethernet- it tends to peak at
>> around 300Mbits/s whereas Unix systems can handle it.  Any comments?
>
>I don't think that Linux does even that well. I remember reading some
>articles on the ATM/Linux project and Beowulf that cited a 20Mb/s limit
>for TCP/IP due to excessive buffer copies. The ATM people had a way/patch
>around this, I belive.
>
>Can anyone lend some valididty to this? Has anyone actually served stuff
>quicker then 20Mb/s off of Linux?
>
>Brad

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