RE: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-15 Thread Steve Dong
Here are graphs from the netpipe test results with 8.0 RC1 Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Hongtao Yin Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 8:52 PM To: 'István' Cc: freebsd-performanc

RE: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-15 Thread Hongtao Yin
Istvan, I ran newer FreeBSD code 8.0 RC1 this time. By using NetPIPE, we collected test data and the result shows that FreeBSD TCP performance is worse than Linux. I got troubles to plot using gnuplot, so here I am attaching the raw data files. The netpipe commands are as follows: PC2: #NPtcp

RE: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-15 Thread Steve Dong
There are two gettimeofday calls, one at the beginning of the test and the other at the end. netperf-2.4.4 is used. I believe gettimeofday is a vsyscall in linux, but a real system call in freebsd. Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-performa...@freebsd.org [mailto:o

Re: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
2009/10/15 Hongtao Yin : > Hi, > > > > I compared TCP performance between FreeBSD and Linux by running test tools > Netperf and Iperf with Intel NIC. Did you compare syscalls made and time taken? For example, do either/both of them do a lot of gettimeofday() calls? FreeBSD and Linux have (had?) d

Re: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-15 Thread István
use netpipe TCP pls. And graph it. Thanks in advance, Istvan On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Hongtao Yin wrote: > Hi, > > > > I compared TCP performance between FreeBSD and Linux by running test tools > Netperf and Iperf with Intel NIC. > > The kernels are full version and default values are u

Re: Comparison of FreeBSD/Linux TCP Throughput performance

2009-10-15 Thread O. Hartmann
Hongtao Yin wrote: Hi, I compared TCP performance between FreeBSD and Linux by running test tools Netperf and Iperf with Intel NIC. The kernels are full version and default values are used in the testing except TCP Congestion Control algorithm set to Reno. From the test results we can s