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Could you provide some details on this?

• Koshkin 4y ago
  In terms of the market share, at least, according to Wikipedia [1], Less than 1% is confirmed to be UNIX or Unix-like and non-Linux. The top operating systems in order are: 0.3% BSD (97.8% of which is FreeBSD),[251] <0.1% Darwin,[252] <0.1% HP-UX,[253] <0.1% Solaris,[254] and <0.1% Minix. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
  • musicale 4y ago
    Thanks for quoting wikipedia on market share, but I was hoping for technical details regarding networking on macOS, preferably based on firsthand knowledge.
• e40 4y ago
  One example I experienced recently: got my 10G fiber and was torrenting was few things. I was pulling down about 25MB/sec and my mac mini started acting really weird. ARD locked up and the connection dropped and various other things. Did the same thing on Linux, transmission on both but in docker on Linux, and it didn’t flinch. Everything else in the system worked fine, and I have quite a lot on that Linux system, including a plex server.
  • musicale 4y ago
    Interesting - what do you think the root cause was?
    • e40 4y ago
      I think the networking stack in macOS is just not nearly as good as on Linux. I think it's fine for a small number of maxed out sockets, but the test that broke it was on another level. Actually, I think it was more than 25MB/sec, it was more like 55MB/sec, total, from 100's of peers. Honestly, until I got the 10G fiber, I never really tested macOS like this. I have no local tests which could generate that sort of throughput.
• astrange 4y ago
  Doesn't have syncookies or other DoS protection.
  • musicale 4y ago
    Can you do something equivalent using pf?