From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 17 8:38: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guerilla.foo.bar (hennen32s.iserlohn.netsurf.de [194.195.194.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77B3214C31 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sas@schell.de) Received: (qmail 2156 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1999 17:38:10 +0100 Received: from innernet (masked all received headers); 17 Mar 1999 17:38:10 +0100 Received: (from sas@localhost) by flaubert.foo.bar (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA02522; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:37:18 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:37:18 +0100 From: Sascha Schumann To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real performance comparisons (was: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!!) Message-ID: <19990317173718.A2510@schell.de> References: <19990316150715.A3316@schell.de> <19990317111720.O429@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990317111720.O429@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:17:20AM +1030 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.2-ac7 alpha Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:17:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Andreas was quite specific about his results. The only mistake he > made (and one about which I commented) was that he initially accepted > the fact that he got *no* performance improvement from the SMP > implementation. This is at least a documentation problem of the SuSE > distribution. This only demonstrates clearly that he lacks basic Linux knowledge. No Linux distribution ships with a SMP ready kernel. As a matter of fact, I would not make a benchmark publically available, if I just managed to install a system. > As somebody else said, it *would* be interesting to compare Linux and > FreeBSD performance objectively and in detail. The only comparison of > this nature that we have at the moment is from the Gartner group > (http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8), > which shows that FreeBSD outperforms Linux by in the order of 40% in > certain server applications. While I don't doubt the validity of this > information, it would be interesting to research where the differences > lie, and the extent to which such measurements are typical. Don't doubt anything. The Gartner Group is always right. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann | Consultant | finger sas@schell.de | for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message