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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > Also, for a long time, Linux had a hard time with lots or routes. > > No longer applies. In fact Linux is now faster than BSD up to about > > 60-70,000 routes. BSD is faster at about 200,000. In between its about > > even. > Where/how are you doing simulations with that many routes? These are just numbers reported by Alan Cox and Alexey Kuznetsov. > Feeding full routes to a linux 2.0.3x box running gated, I get: > # cat /proc/net/route | wc -l > 54677 > and that command takes 13s to complete. Well thats great for benchmarking procfs B) I wonder how long 'netstat -rn' takes on *BSD with 54k routes. -Dan
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