From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 13:23:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A32316A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:23:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 081BD43D2D for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:23:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO cpe000103d44c07-cm000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) (mikej@69.193.222.195 with login) by smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 13:23:34 -0000 Received: from 207.219.213.163 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user mikej); by cpe000103d44c07-cm000f9f7ae88c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:23:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <49877.207.219.213.163.1105017807.squirrel@207.219.213.163> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:23:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" To: freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 in server performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:23:35 -0000 Jesper Louis Andersen said: > I disagree that the original post is entirely FUD. While the conclusion is subjective, fact is that at the particular mix of microbenchmarks shows NetBSD faster than FreeBSD. I am wondering if that is the price you pay on single-cpu boxes to gain speed at the SMP boxes. And if this is true the question becomes if fine-grained locking is worth the implementation time when most computers are still single-cpu (Yes, I know this can change rapidly with the newer CPU types). It will change. Both AMD and Intel will be releasing dual core CPUs this year. This seems to be the future for most CPUs.