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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:21:10 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        kamalp@acm.org
Cc:        Robert Ryan <rustyryan882000@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3
Message-ID:  <20050107092110.GG49329@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050107091004.83732.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <41DE4F3D.8050509@syskonnect.de> <20050107091004.83732.qmail@web52710.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:10:04AM -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>=20
> > Hi Robert,
> >=20
> > the benchmark you cited is for uniprocessor systems
> > only.
> > It says nothing about multiprocessor performance,
> > which is what FreeBSD=20
> > is aiming for.
> Doesn't the (ULE) scheduler have a switch to ensure
> that performance is optimal on a uniprocessor machine
> too?

I don't know, but if it did that would only affect scheduling, and
only in the ULE case at that.  ULE was broken in 5.3-RELEASE.

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.

Ceri
--=20
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)

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