[Soekris] Which distro gives best performance?

[Jere Virta]

Hello,

Isn't this article bit outdated, it's four years old and OS versions used
are far from the latest.

- jere

Jonathan Groll kirjoitti:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:34:25PM +0100, wouter lists wrote:
>  
>   
>> For the moment there are only 3 clients befind the 4801 and I don't
>> think there will be any added for a while. Normal traffic is some web,
>> mail, ftp, p2p. Most traffic is ftp download from our main office ftp
>> server which has enough bandwidth.
>>
>> I don't care if it's linux or a bsd. An (web)interface would be nice,
>> but not necessary as the firewall rules only changed 2 times last
>> year, I think there are only 10 rules right now.
>>
>> Can the performance gurus give me some advice?
>>     
>
> There is an interesting comparison of linux and the bsd's with respect
> to pppoe transfer capacity, to be found here:
> http://www.jraitala.net/comp/articles/2002/pppoe/
>
> Note, that these tests were performed with a "clearly overpowered
> server" - Athlon XP 1600+ with 512MB of DDR RAM. For a soekris, hardware
> may be the actual bottleneck in any case.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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