From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 16 15:15: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DECE37B407 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 15:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jazepeda@pacbell.net) Received: from zippy.mybox.zip ([207.214.149.211]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0GF100J9VN4HGP@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 15:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by zippy.mybox.zip (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53FEF180B; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 15:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 15:14:39 -0700 From: Alex Zepeda Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS In-reply-to: <200106162031.f5GKVfm16209@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from acahalan@cs.uml.edu on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:31:41PM -0400 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010616151439.A712@zippy.mybox.zip> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <200106162031.f5GKVfm16209@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:31:41PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > I guess it's fair to shove Linux deep into swap (as pro-FreeBSD > benchmarkers always do), but not fair to make FreeBSD handle a > large directory? Well... no. This test did stress FreeBSD's ability to handle large directories, and that's fine. Especially since they didn't even bother to compare it to ReiserFS, which should be much better. However, they could have / should have leveled the playing field with one very simple tweak: *Mount all filesystems async* The tests merely tested the effect of the disk's ability to handle tagged queuing and the disk's ability to cache stuff. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message