https://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html
FreeBSD can be several times faster then Linux when it comes to network stack:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzFfTSRUQAATwaq.jpg
But often Linux is faster, you just need to find benchmark that favorites one or another, both are fast in general.
Shame! Shame, shame, shame!
[1] Factor of 3+ differences not just between BSD and Linux but between otherwise very comparable linux distros. Something's weird with the setup there, like it's measuring default firewalling overhead or something and not kernel behavior.
I guess they have everything just set to default disto settings which likely in some cases include firewall while others don't. They also don't mention which NIC they are using, the motherboard has two different NICs (i218-LM & I210-AT).
> Something's weird with the setup there, like it's measuring default firewalling overhead or something and not kernel behavior.
This is something you come to expect if you've seen enough of what Phoronix publishes.