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Thanks. That fits my general idea of FreeBSD. I've mostly wondered about how they technically compare though. Facebook seems to think Linux is generally faster
by pedrocr 12y ago
Thanks. That fits my general idea of FreeBSD. I've mostly wondered about how they technically compare though. Facebook seems to think Linux is generally faster for example[1]. I'd love to follow this more closely but I haven't found a LWN equivalent for the BSDs.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/608954/ https://lwn.net/Articles/608954/
- cperciva 12y agoI think the best answer there is "it depends". Facebook has an open job posting which states that "Our goal over the next few years is for the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD" [1], so clearly there's at least one place in Facebook where Linux does not provide the best performance... [1] https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?req=a0IA000000Cz53VMAR https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?req=a0IA000000Cz...
- jfindley 12y agoI wonder when that was posted. Linux networking has improved massively since the 2.6 days, and continues to get better. It's still not FreeBSD, but the difference is pretty small these days.
- cperciva 12y agoWithin the past couple of months, I believe. Speculation at the time was that this was fallout from Facebook devops trying to port Whatsapp to run on Facebook's systems.