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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:26:20 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX
Message-ID:  <15077.43308.609040.214405@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <21518787@toto.iv>

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Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> types:
> FreeBSD 4.2 still beats linux in every network benchmark except email
> handling... <don't know why there.... :)> even in the 2.4.x kernels.

It's probably the file system, which email handling exercies
heavily. Linux runs their file systems in async mode by default (I'm
not sure if this can be fixed), which makes the file system faster but
less robust. If you're doing benchmarks, you can mount FreeBSD file
systems async so long as you don't have softupdates enabled on the
file system.

	<mike
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