[silentbicycle]

My point was that comparing something that only runs on Linux against something that only runs on (various) BSDs adds a lot of other noise to the comparison - it's no longer the same hardware, install, and tuning, with just a different kernel call.

[kunley]

I see your point. Still it would be useful to see some typical BSD/kqueue in action compared to typical Linux/*poll. I bet Zed is not doing a big sysctl tuning at this stage. Just leaving default system settings as they are still is some starting point for further investigations.