Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:02:32 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: sas@schell.de (Sascha Schumann) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!! Message-ID: <199903161902.OAA08459@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <19990316150715.A3316@schell.de> from Sascha Schumann at "Mar 16, 99 03:07:15 pm"
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Sascha Schumann said: > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 05:13:20PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I tend to agree. I could accept the statement "Linux SMP gives less > > performance than FreeBSD SMP". I can`t accept the statement "Linux > > SMP gives no performance improvement". > > Well, I could accept it, if it would be technically correct. But Mr Klemm's > claims are simply invalid. I probably do not need to reiterate on that fact. > > Alternatively, I will claim that Linux is 1200% faster, since I can calculate > DES keys at a rate of 10M/sec on my Linux box (Alpha PC164UX, 633MHz) and only > 0.8M/sec on my FreeBSD box (Intel Pentium, 166MHz) (yes, it is non sense). > Mr. Klemm is using the same hardware in the test, so your comment doesn't compare. He also redid the experiment with a better comparative test using a more "correct" version of Linux, and the released version of FreeBSD still came out ahead. Frankly, I don't think that 19% is enough faster, and hope that FreeBSD improves more soon. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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