Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 00:25:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Message-ID: <199710042225.AAA15231@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <19971004210211.32240@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Oct 4, 97 09:02:11 pm"
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> Hi !
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 08:50:02PM -0700, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> > I still like FreeBSD installation better. The rest is pretty much
> > the same to me.
>
> Can't understand this. Could you please explain it a bit more ?
> Based on my own experience I can't follow here...
>
> > Kernel-wise, I think i trust FreeBSD kernel better than Linux,
> > although performance is, well, six of this, half a dozen of the
^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > other; Both are tuned very well.
>
> Could you please explain this a little more verbose as well.
>
> So you are saying that FreeBSD has about half the performance
> as Linux ? You're kidding ;-)
Well, `six' is about the same as `half a dozen', so Simon is saying that
FreeBSD has about the same performance as Linux.
> Or did you compare things like the speed of rm -rf on a large
> directory tree without recognizing, that FreeBSD doesn't do
> asynchronous I/O to a file system as default ?!
>
> Please facts here.
>
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