Python / Socket speed

[Richard Brodie]

<msj at infoserv.dk> wrote in message 
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> Seems like sockets are about 6 times faster on OpenSUSE than on
> Windows XP in Python.
>
> http://pyfanatic.blogspot.com/2007/02/socket-performance.html
>
> Is this related to Python or the OS?

It's 6 times faster even when not using Python, so what do you think?
It's probably 'just' tuning though, the default window sizes are in the
same ratio.