From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 12:21:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03335 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03233 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-32.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.32]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA38820; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:20:33 GMT Message-ID: <35423765.E262C80B@ibm.net> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:20:05 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Kelly CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing References: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net> <35432f5d.444084@mail.cetlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Kelly wrote: > While I have your attention, I found a BSDI source license at yard > sale prices and decided to performance test it (2.1 and 3.0) against > FreeBSD -current. I was surprised that my disk benchmark was about 5% > faster with BSDI, even compared against the latest FreeBSD -current. > > And their NFS leaves FreeBSD in the dust. It's nearly as fast as a > disk to disk copy on a single machine, and CPU consumption is lower. > > When all is quiet, BSDI running TOP shows 100% idle on a 486, and on > that same machine, I've never seen better than 99.6% idle on FreeBSD. > I wonder what they did differently to achieve that. > synch or asynch disks writes? Linux seems faster too until you equalize it. --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message