Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?

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From: Antipov Dmitry
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 12:46 am

Hello all,

everyone knows that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.
Despite of this obvious fact, recently I've tried to compare pipe performance on
Linux and FreeBSD systems. Unfortunately, Linux results are poor - ~2x slower than
FreeBSD. The detailed description of the test case, preparation, environment and
results are located at http://213.148.29.37/PipeBench, and everyone are pleased to
look at, reproduce, criticize, etc.

Thanks,
Dmitry
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Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Antipov Dmitry, (Wed Mar 5, 12:46 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, David Miller, (Wed Mar 5, 1:00 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Eric Dumazet, (Wed Mar 5, 2:47 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Andi Kleen, (Wed Mar 5, 3:19 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, David Newall, (Wed Mar 5, 5:12 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 5, 7:20 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Eric Dumazet, (Wed Mar 5, 7:55 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 5, 8:38 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Nick Piggin, (Wed Mar 5, 9:02 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Dmitry Antipov, (Thu Mar 6, 5:11 am)
Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?, Nick Piggin, (Mon Mar 17, 5:53 am)