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Re: Hardware for Internet providers



Hi;
>From the usenix winter '96 paper on Unixes on Pentium:

"Our results show that the x86 operating systems and system libraries 
we tested fail to deliver the Pentium's full memory write performance 
to applications. On small-file workloads, Linux is an order of magnitude 
faster than the other systems. On networking software, FreeBSD provides 
two to three times higher bandwidth than Linux. In general, Solaris 
performance usually lies between that of the other two systems." 

My impresion is that linux is not too stable for useing as IP main
machine. It networking is unstable (and I use it for the last 3 years).
ppp tend to hung after 2~3 days of regular use, It lost it routing table,
it has memory leaks while useing gated|routed.
I would go on BSDI.




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