Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:20:05 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <35423765.E262C80B@ibm.net> References: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net> <35432f5d.444084@mail.cetlink.net>
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John Kelly wrote: > While I have your attention, I found a BSDI source license at yard > sale prices and decided to performance test it (2.1 and 3.0) against > FreeBSD -current. I was surprised that my disk benchmark was about 5% > faster with BSDI, even compared against the latest FreeBSD -current. > > And their NFS leaves FreeBSD in the dust. It's nearly as fast as a > disk to disk copy on a single machine, and CPU consumption is lower. > > When all is quiet, BSDI running TOP shows 100% idle on a 486, and on > that same machine, I've never seen better than 99.6% idle on FreeBSD. > I wonder what they did differently to achieve that. > synch or asynch disks writes? Linux seems faster too until you equalize it. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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