Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:33:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tommy Hallgren <md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se> To: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD - not on my machine Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970922172504.17754A-100000@grosse.mdstud.chalmers.se>
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Paul writes: [snip] My machine is very similar to your. My system feels a lot more responsive using FreeBSD (2.2.1) than Linux (Redhat, 2.0.29) on it. Of course, some things are much faster in Linux thanks(?) to ext2fs using async disk updates. But I don't like it because of that. I have lost too many files just because I configurerd X wrong and my machine freezes when I type startx. I've done similar mistakes using FreeBSD, but never lost a single file. Using a filesystem like ext2fs for important stuff is really crazy. My microbenchmarks using bonnie shows that Linux can read 2.5MB/s to my Quantum FB(connected to a shitty ISA IDE controller). Bonnie also says that Linux uses 90% CPU to to that. FreeBSD does 2.2MB/s using only 30%, again according to Bonnie. I really like FreeBSD and its community. Mvh: Tommy Hallgren(md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se)
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