Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:25:49 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>, Gerald Heinig <gheinig@syskonnect.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kamalp@acm.org, Robert Ryan <rustyryan882000@yahoo.co.uk>, tjr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <20050112012549.GA20259@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050108135526.GQ49329@submonkey.net> References: <41DE4F3D.8050509@syskonnect.de> <20050107091004.83732.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com> <20050107092110.GG49329@submonkey.net> <20050107101006.GA2553@frontfree.net> <20050108135526.GQ49329@submonkey.net>
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My > > > only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeBSD. > > > > I guess that this might worth investigating: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~das/pbench/pbench.html > > > > (Unfortuantelly, neither tjr@ nor I have touched our patchsets recently. > > A most recent snapshot of the two patchsets are here: > > > > http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid.diff > > http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid-tjr.diff) > > > > Most of the work was to catch up with Aug 2004's -CURRENT, but it might > > be easier to bring them up-to-date instead of working from the very original > > patches =-) > > Looks great. Any reason why neither has been committed? I've pinged Tim several times, but I think he's busy with his job in the real world to worry about "jobs" in FreeBSD right now. However, there's no rush. There's a lot of lower-hanging fruit in the fork/exec/exit path, including a gratuitous number of acquisitions and releases of Giant.
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