Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 02:36:33 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD shines..[Fwd: Re: semaphore speed] Message-ID: <199711040736.CAA00454@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <345E978D.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Nov 3, 97 07:33:33 pm"
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Julian Elischer said: > oops I sent this to the wrong address before.. > > participants: > jallison: Samba guru: > Andrew Tridgell: wrote Sambe.. Linux hacker > Julian: yours truely: > .... > > Linux 2.1.57 on a P120 > fcntl: 21.3006 secs > ipc: 93.9982 secs > > FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a 200MHz pentium > 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... John
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