From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 15 18:23:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE246150BC for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 14700 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1999 02:22:18 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 16 Mar 1999 02:22:18 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA42509; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:22:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903160222.VAA42509@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!! In-Reply-To: <19990315222949.C1238@titan.klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Mar 15, 99 10:29:49 pm" To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:22:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, joseph@randomnetworks.com, travis@trickster.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, de-bsd-chat@DE.FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andreas Klemm said: > > To bring in some new flesh here ... I repeated the tests with Linux > Kernel release 2.2.3. And yes, the results are better ... > > But we are still 19% better ;-) > 19% is alot more credible. I made the mistake of mentioning a 2-3X performance difference between FreeBSD and another OS -- and of course, it was difficult to show that result (and convince those who will disagree by default) without exposing a proprietary development setup. No matter how true the result was (and it was), convincing the receivers of the info can be difficult (and often not worth it.) FreeBSD is quite amazing, in that it is dependable in "end" conditions that many other OSes start acting "wierd." The BSD code legacy (for all of it's warts) is impressive. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message