Re: [stunnel-users] Large performance difference: Solaris vs Linux

Cliffe, Stephen wrote:

Does anyone know why there would be such a big difference between the two OS's?

Linux kernel performed a huge rewrite and significant performance optimization of major subsystems (scheduler, networking) in 2.6 kernels. AFAIK Slowlaris was never really optimized for systems with less then 16 CPUs. You may find this article interesting: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/index.html Mike