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

[Michal Trojnara]

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