Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:33:15 +0100 From: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> To: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!! Message-ID: <19990316203315.A9098@schell.de> In-Reply-To: <199903161902.OAA08459@y.dyson.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:02:32PM -0500 References: <19990316150715.A3316@schell.de> <199903161902.OAA08459@y.dyson.net>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:02:32PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> 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.
The original comment was non sense (Mr Klemm showed that by repeating his
test). I placed another comment against it. Of course, this cannot make
sense, too.
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