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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:59:02 +0200
From:      se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
To:        Gerard Roudier <groudier@iplus.fr>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, nash@mcs.com
Subject:   RE: Unices are created equal, but...
Message-ID:  <199604151159.AA19231@Sisyphos>
In-Reply-To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@iplus.fr> "RE: Unices are created equal, but..." (Apr 15,  1:22)

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On Apr 15,  1:22, Gerard Roudier wrote:

} > I also ran iozone using a 50MB file with 4096 byte records.  Terry,
} > I think your idea of a FreeBSD upgrade for Linux may be coming
} > true...
} > 
} >   FreeBSD on UFS:
} >           2770803 bytes/second for writing the file 
18.1s/50MB
} >           3908495 bytes/second for reading the file 
12.8s/50MB

} >   Linux on ext2fs:
} >           3220442 bytes/second for writing the file 
15.5s/50MB
} >           1950476 bytes/second for reading the file 
25.6s/50MB

} >   FreeBSD on ext2fs:
} >           2768517 bytes/second for writing the file
18.1s/50MB
} >           3265638 bytes/second for reading the file
15.3s/50MB

} It seems that something is magic for Linux in my system:

No! Actually it's not ... :)

} P90/16MB/NCR53c810/IBMS12
} FreeBSD-2.0.5 installed  in notche 0. (should be faster)
} Linux-1.3.87 installed near notche 1.
} 
} iozone 100 4096
} 
} Linux-1.3.87 / 1k ext2 file system
}            4257312 bytes/second for writing the file
23.5s/100MB
}            3924311 bytes/second for reading the file
25.5s/100MB

} FreeBSD-2.0.5 / file system created while installation
}                 probably some UFS 8k group ???
}            3485269 bytes/second for writing the file
28.7s/100MB
}            4438416 bytes/second for readind the file
22.5s/100MB

} I have not time enough to write my comments in english.
} It is your turn to take some dictionnary if you want to understand 
} my comments.

Sorry, my french is lacking. How about 
German or Japanese, if you don't want
to write in English ? ;-)

But regarding  those iozone results:

According to some discussion in a Linux
group, the write performance comes out 
to high and the read performance to low,
since there is no flush() at the end of 
the write phase. Since some of the write 
time is accounted to the read phase, both
values come out wrong, but the total time
taken should be about right ...

(Lets see: 23.5+25.5=49, 28.7+22.5=51.2.
 Hmmm ... The numbers from the first test
 with 50MB files are 30.9 / 41.1 / 33.4,
 which indicates that EXT2FS under FreeBSD
 -current is faster than under Linux, and
 only slightly slower than UFS ... :)

 Please don't take this comment too serious.
 I consider IOZONE numbers highly bogus and
 only accept Bonnie with large files for 
 comparison purposes ...)

} FRENCH COMMENTS:
} ----------------
} He l'ami,

[ Deleted everything I couldn't understand :) ]

Regards, STefan
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