Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 22:25:45 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105272222250.1907-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <200105252059.NAA13350@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching enabled in any distribution I'm aware of). ;)) The hole VM / FS write clustering thing is an area where Linux still has to catch up with FreeBSD (at least in theory FreeBSD's subsystem here is much more advanced). If, for some reason, FreeBSD _does_ turn out to be much slower than Linux (which I doubt), chances are something is just tuned wrong. All code I've seen indicates that Linux should be lagging FreeBSD in this area... (and no, reiser doesn't really count since it's not all that reliable yet ... like Matt wrote, it has a long way to go until it reaches reliability) regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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