Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 12:56:23 +0000 () From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@jsdinc.root.com> To: geli.com!rcarter@implode.root.com (Russell L. Carter) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: benchmark hell.. Message-ID: <199504231256.MAA02465@jsdinc.root.com> In-Reply-To: <199504231740.KAA10084@geli.clusternet> from "Russell L. Carter" at Apr 23, 95 10:40:00 am
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> > Well, the real measure would be Linux 1.2++ and FreeBSD from > mid March on. And file copy on the Barracuda isn't so hot, > I only get ~3.5 MB/s on bonnie out of mine, so I suspect > that the advantage there is real. That leaves just the execl > and pipe based context switch to check out. It's been > years since I ran these, aren't there a lot more tests? > > Russell > Part of the execl problem is the Sun-OS style shared libs that we use. Without shared libs, our fork/exec times kick-butt. I think that we-all have made some improvements in the times now so that my lmbench fork/exec tests (with our shared libs) on my 486/66 are fairly close to the example Linux Pentium results. But, our pipe performance could be better though. John dyson@root.com
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