Re[2]: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-04 Thread linuxjob
Hello Gregory, Friday, March 02, 2001, 9:00:07 PM, you wrote: GM> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:02:13AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: >> > If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, >> > then reiserfs has to get ported to

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
> So we would get dual-licensed ReiserFS (BSD and GPL)? > > Are you aware of the legal implications, making your currently > GPL-only code BSD-licensed (status of third party patches for the GPL > code and so on)? Read Hans licensing. He's been very careful both to make that clear and cover

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:02:13AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: > > If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, > > then reiserfs has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a > > pain to do. > > So we would get

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: > If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, > then reiserfs has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a > pain to do. So we would get dual-licensed ReiserFS (BSD and GPL)? Are you aware of the legal implications,

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, then reiserfs has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a pain to do. So we would get dual-licensed ReiserFS (BSD and GPL)? Are you aware of the legal implications, making

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:02:13AM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Reiser) writes: If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, then reiserfs has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a pain to do. So we would get

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
So we would get dual-licensed ReiserFS (BSD and GPL)? Are you aware of the legal implications, making your currently GPL-only code BSD-licensed (status of third party patches for the GPL code and so on)? Read Hans licensing. He's been very careful both to make that clear and cover it. -

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread David L. Parsley
Alan Cox wrote: > The extreme answer to the 2.4 networking performance is the tux specweb > benchmarks but they dont answer for all cases clearly. However, I think you've hit the nail on the head here; much of tux is just general-purpose network file-blasting. The right hacker could turn it

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread linuxjob
Hello Hans, Thursday, March 01, 2001, 7:26:20 AM, you wrote: HR> I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of HR> implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. HR> They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on HR> BSD. Has the Linux

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > > This is indeed what we should do if we get no answer from the list by someone > > who has already done such work. > > > > Hans, > > exactly what you want to measure? I have UP, 2way-SMP and 4way-SMP > machines all of

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:03 PM 1/03/2001 +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half > what it is on > > > BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? > > > > > > Can I tell them not to worry about the Linux networking code > strangling their >

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread kuznet
Hello! > They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on > BSD. What is "iMimic's polymix"? I am almost sure, it is simply buggy and was not _debugged_ under linux. Alexey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > > This is indeed what we should do if we get no answer from the list by someone > who has already done such work. > Hans, exactly what you want to measure? I have UP, 2way-SMP and 4way-SMP machines all of which have at least Linux+FreeBSD installed.

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan Dabney
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:22PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > Nathan Dabney wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > > The above link contains some decent squid performance hints for 2.2+Squid. > > > > -Nathan Dabney > It does not say anything about

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
> If I can't get information about BSD v. Linux 2.4 networking code, then reiserfs > has to get ported to BSD which will be both nice and a pain to do. I dont think raw network data helps. 2.2 and FreeBSD are basically the same speed for raw networking in the general case. So if someone was

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:22PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > Nathan Dabney wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > The problem is that I really need BSD vs. Linux experiences, not Linux 2.4 vs. > > > 2.2 experiences, because the webcache industry tends

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
James Lewis Nance wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:26:20AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > > I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of > > implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. > > > > They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Nathan Dabney wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > > The problem is that I really need BSD vs. Linux experiences, not Linux 2.4 vs. > > 2.2 experiences, because the webcache industry tends to strongly disparage Linux > > networking code, so much better isn't

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread James Lewis Nance
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:26:20AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of > implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. > > They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it > is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread God
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:03:31 +0300 > > Todd wrote: > > hans, > > we've found that the TCP and UDP performance on 2.4 is *dramatically* > > better than 2.2. [..] > > i'd recommend it's networking performance to anyone. > > > > On Thu, 1 Mar

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan Dabney
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > The problem is that I really need BSD vs. Linux experiences, not Linux 2.4 vs. > 2.2 experiences, because the webcache industry tends to strongly disparage Linux > networking code, so much better isn't necessarily good enough. > >

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Mar 2001 02:26:20 +0300 > > From: Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD? > > > > I have a client that wants to implement a webcache,

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Nathan Dabney
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: The problem is that I really need BSD vs. Linux experiences, not Linux 2.4 vs. 2.2 experiences, because the webcache industry tends to strongly disparage Linux networking code, so much better isn't necessarily good enough. Hans

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread God
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 19:03:31 +0300 Todd wrote: hans, we've found that the TCP and UDP performance on 2.4 is *dramatically* better than 2.2. [..] i'd recommend it's networking performance to anyone. On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread James Lewis Nance
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:26:20AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Nathan Dabney wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: The problem is that I really need BSD vs. Linux experiences, not Linux 2.4 vs. 2.2 experiences, because the webcache industry tends to strongly disparage Linux networking code, so much better isn't

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
James Lewis Nance wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:26:20AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:22PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: Nathan Dabney wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:03:31PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: The problem is that I really need BSD vs. Linux experiences, not Linux 2.4 vs. 2.2 experiences, because the webcache industry tends to

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 07:03 PM 1/03/2001 +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? Can I tell them not to worry about the Linux networking code strangling their webcache

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: This is indeed what we should do if we get no answer from the list by someone who has already done such work. Hans, exactly what you want to measure? I have UP, 2way-SMP and 4way-SMP machines all of which have at

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread linuxjob
Hello Hans, Thursday, March 01, 2001, 7:26:20 AM, you wrote: HR I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of HR implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. HR They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on HR BSD. Has the Linux 2.4

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-03-01 Thread David L. Parsley
snip stuff about someone using linux for a web cache Alan Cox wrote: The extreme answer to the 2.4 networking performance is the tux specweb benchmarks but they dont answer for all cases clearly. However, I think you've hit the nail on the head here; much of tux is just general-purpose

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-02-28 Thread Todd
]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD? > > I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of > implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. > > They know that iMimic's polymix performance

What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? Can I tell them not to worry about the

What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-02-28 Thread Hans Reiser
I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on BSD. Has the Linux 2.4 networking code caught up to BSD? Can I tell them not to worry about the

Re: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD?

2001-02-28 Thread Todd
PROTECTED] Subject: What is 2.4 Linux networking performance like compared to BSD? I have a client that wants to implement a webcache, but is very leery of implementing it on Linux rather than BSD. They know that iMimic's polymix performance on Linux 2.2.* is half what it is on BSD. Has the