On 10/13/07, Josh Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/13/07, Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, you may have such problems but you are very much reaching in > > thinking that my --linux-percent has anything to do with any failing > > in linux. > > > > It's about dealing with unfair upstream switches, which, I'm quite > > sure, were not running Linux. > > > > Let's not hijack this into a linux-bash. > > I really don't know what you were trying to say here...
You seemed to think --limit-percent was a solution for a misbehavior of linux. My experience with linux networking is that it's very effective and that upstream non-linux switches don't handle such an effective client well. When a linux box is my gateway/firewall I don't experience single-client monopolization at all. As to your linux issues, that's a topic that should probably discussed in another forum, but I will say that I'm quite happy with the latest Linux kernels- with the low-latency patch integrated and enabled my desktop experience is quite snappy, even on this four-year-old 1.2GHz laptop. And stay away from the distro "server" kernels- they are optimized for throughput at the cost of latency- they do their I/O in bigger chunks. And stay away from the RT kernels- they go too far in giving I/O priority over everything else and end up churning on IRQs unless they are very carefully tuned. And no, I won't call the linux kernel GNU/Linux, if that was what you were after. The kernel is after all the one Linux thing in a GNU/Linux system. > .. I use GNU/Linux. Anyone try Debian GNU/BSD yet? Or Debian/Nexenta/GNU/Solaris? -- Best Regards. Please keep in touch.
