From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 4 15:26:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA10456 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 15:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA10435 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 15:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA15231; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 00:25:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199710042225.AAA15231@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux In-Reply-To: <19971004210211.32240@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Oct 4, 97 09:02:11 pm" To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 00:25:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: Shimon@i-Connect.Net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. > > -- > Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' > andreas@klemm.gtn.com - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html > andreas@FreeBSD.ORG - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html >