In a message dated 05/23/2001 5:04:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > Tell them to fire 20K packets/second at the linux box and watch it
crumble.
>
> > Linux has lots of little kludges to make it appear faster on some
> benchmarks,
> > but from a networking standpoint it cant handle significant network
loads.
> >
> Are you sure this is still true? The 2.4.x series kernel was supposed to
> have significant networking improvements over the previous kernels.
I dont know, but I doubt it. the problem isnt the networking preformance, its
the inability of the memory system and the ethernet drivers to handle
overloads properly. They are modeled in a way that fails in practice.
Bryan
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