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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 1997 23:51:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD shines..[Fwd: Re: semaphore speed]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971103234707.17567C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711040736.CAA00454@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> Julian Elischer said:
> > Linux 2.1.57 on a P120
> > fcntl: 21.3006 secs
> > ipc: 93.9982 secs
> > 
> > FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a 200MHz pentium
should read PPro200
> > fcntl: 3.16579 secs
> > ipc: 2.63504 secs
> > 
> > Linux 2.0.30 on a PPro200
> > fcntl: 12.2177 secs
> > ipc: 50.4559 secs
> > 
> 
> My results with FBSD-current on PPro200
> 
> UP kernel:
> fcntl: 10.735 secs
> ipc: 9.17823 secs
> 
> SMP kernel:
> fcntl: 17.8355 secs
> ipc: 9.10841 secs
> 
> It appears that the 200MHz Pentium results are for a really fast
> machine :-).  Is there a chance that there was an error in the
> Pentium test?  Or are the results correct?  (Sometimes Pentiums
> are paradoxically faster than PPro's.)  I just want to make sure
> that people aren't misinformed that FreeBSD is *that* much faster
> than Linux..

Actually it was a 200MHz PPro.
the difference is that it was 2.2.2
We seem to have slowed it down by a factor of 3 :(

I saw the test run several times..
it really did return in 3 seconds.


> 
> John
> 




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