Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:21:14 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: tjr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.61.0501081320080.603@oof.local> In-Reply-To: <20050108135526.GQ49329@submonkey.net> References: <41DE4F3D.8050509@syskonnect.de> <20050107091004.83732.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com> <20050107101006.GA2553@frontfree.net> <20050108135526.GQ49329@submonkey.net>
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On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: >>> I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My >>> only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeBSD. >> >> I guess that this might worth investigating: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~das/pbench/pbench.html >> >> (Unfortuantelly, neither tjr@ nor I have touched our patchsets recently. >> A most recent snapshot of the two patchsets are here: >> >> http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid.diff >> http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid-tjr.diff) >> >> Most of the work was to catch up with Aug 2004's -CURRENT, but it might >> be easier to bring them up-to-date instead of working from the very original >> patches =-) > > Looks great. Any reason why neither has been committed? Any idea what type of impact this patch would have on say, a large qmail server that's drowning in context-switches? Charles > Ceri > -- > Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm > not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) >
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