Re: http://www.nfr.net/nfr/mail-archive/nfr-users/1999/Feb/0110.html

Greg Lindahl (lindahl@cs.virginia.edu)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:23:51 -0400 (EDT)

> Has anyone seen this? It's a pretty sad commentary on Linux packet
> handling. Is there truth to it, and if so, plans to fix it?

The bsd machines were sniffing 45,000 packets per second. Linux -- in
the default configuration -- can't even receive 45,000 packets per
second, because of the default setting of
/proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog.

-- g

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