Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:37:09 -0500 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging Message-ID: <199612030437.XAA18483@jenolan.caipgeneral> In-Reply-To: <199612030323.NAA08269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:53:37 %2B1030 (CST))
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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:53:37 +1030 (CST) Well, where to start. Look at the author of "lmbench", and consider the politics of his particular disease. Personal attacks are not necessary, please stick to logical arguments. Then consider the SPECmark fiasco. If you can't see the picture clearly then, I'm happy to supply two-by-four correction. I am not familiar with all of issues here, so I cannot comment. But I do agree that benchmarks are laundered in inconspicuous and questionable ways, certainly. Who said anything about SGI? If I sit down with an embedded processor system and any sort of network-alive RTOS, I can make your numbers look sick. How'd you like a negative TCP latency? It's not hard to do; nor is 100% medium occupancy. Are you offering full Unix (or POSIX, or some othe full featured system) semantics on that system? One of the things I am proud of is that I can pretty much fill a nice pipe, and retain all of the semantics of a full system. But that system's not going to run applications much better than Linux does, and this brings us back to John's point; micro-level benchmarks are for weiner-waving losers who fail to comprehend that computers are for _doing_ things with. If you read John's other posting, he did not express his opinions on this matter in this way at all. ---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><
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