From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 21:36:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00862 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00844 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24622; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:05:19 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id QAA24113; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:05:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980215160519.03942@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:05:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Kelly , John Goerzen Cc: Konrad Heuer , Vincent Defert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux References: <34e88842.7309199@mail.cetlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34e88842.7309199@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 06:18:06AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 February 1998 at 6:18:06 +0000, John Kelly wrote: > 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 .... This ties in with just about every report I've heard about Linux, though I have no personal experience in the area. I also find it hard to believe that Linux should be able to beat Solaris 2 in this area. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message