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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD shines..[Fwd: Re: semaphore speed]
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> Julian Elischer said:
> > oops I sent this to the wrong address before..
> > 
> > participants:
> > jallison: Samba guru:
> > Andrew Tridgell: wrote Sambe.. Linux hacker
> > Julian: yours truely:
> > ....
> > 
> > Linux 2.1.57 on a P120
> > fcntl: 21.3006 secs
> > ipc: 93.9982 secs
> > 
> > FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a 200MHz pentium
> > fcntl: 3.16579 secs
> > ipc: 2.63504 secs
> > 
> > Linux 2.0.30 on a PPro200
> > fcntl: 12.2177 secs
> > ipc: 50.4559 secs
> > 
> 
> My results with FBSD-current on PPro200
> 
> UP kernel:
> fcntl: 10.735 secs
> ipc: 9.17823 secs
> 
> SMP kernel:
> fcntl: 17.8355 secs
> ipc: 9.10841 secs
> 
> It appears that the 200MHz Pentium results are for a really fast
> machine :-).  Is there a chance that there was an error in the
> Pentium test?  Or are the results correct?  (Sometimes Pentiums
> are paradoxically faster than PPro's.)  I just want to make sure
> that people aren't misinformed that FreeBSD is *that* much faster
> than Linux...

I just tried 2.2.0 (approx) on a pentium 90
I didn't have IPC compiled in, so I just did fcntl.
yielding 7.22 secs.
looks like we slowed it down more than a bit..


> 
> John
>