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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: performance differences
To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 18:38:13 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jmb@freebsd.org, wweng@stevens-tech.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Alex wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> 
> > Wei Weng wrote:
> > > 
> > > check out :
> > > http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19970901S0125
> > > for the result of performance tests on linux freebsd and windowsNT. 
> > 
> > 	FreeBSD was using 1/2 the memory used by the other systems.
> > 	FreeBSD was conservative in determinghte amount of memory 
> > 	installed.  The amount used is reported in the startup messages,
> > 	which the reviewers must have missed.
> > 
> > 	they did not do the minimum of building a kernel to use
> > 	the larger amount of memory available
> 
> The whole point of this was to test a machine "out of the box". I.E. doing
> as little customization as possible.  If they had tested with 3.0 (a.k.a.
> -current) which sizes >64M OTH, methinks that FreeBSD would have come out
> on top.

	so they said, yet they also claimed that there was no warning 
	message...indicating a change would have been made if they
	had read the boot messages....very confusing....but so are
	the numeric results....thye published 100 users and 3000 user
	for most systems, 10 users for NT, and 200 user for FreeBSD.

	i would have preferred numbers for all os'es for hte same number of
	users.
jmb