From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 21:18:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28003 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:18:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA27938 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:17:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts1-cltnc-24.cetlink.net [209.54.58.24]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12872; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:17:37 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: John Goerzen Cc: Konrad Heuer , Vincent Defert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 06:18:06 GMT Message-ID: <34e88842.7309199@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA27997 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:38:12 -0600 (CST), John Goerzen wrote: >On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Konrad Heuer wrote: > >> 1. The Linux scheduler which is very different from other UNIX >> schedulers (and thus the FreeBSD scheduler) behaves very poor when the >> system is heavily loaded (no fair scheduling!). > >In comparing Linux to SunOS and Solaris in heavliy-loaded systems, I can >say that Linux performed much better. However, I have not compared it >directly to FreeBSD. I have. Linux comes apart at the seams under load. FreeBSD just keeps going and going and going .... -- The day of the proprietary OS is over. Long live free software. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message