From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 01:35:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA17104 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [194.183.217.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA17091 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: from localhost (didier@localhost) by omnix.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA16043; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:34:54 GMT (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:34:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Didier Derny To: Zenin cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, support@yard.de Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD (performances) In-Reply-To: <199808200841.BAA07319@thrush.omix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Zenin wrote: > > > I'm working with Yard (SQL engine) > > > > With a Pentium 200MMX I get the same performances with FreeBSD/Yard > > than with a Pentium II 333 running Linux suse 5.2 > > > > exactly the same application. > > And when you switch the machines, what happends? > > If it's still the same, I'd say you're I/O bound, probably > at the disks. But of course, you give us so little information > on what exactly you're doing and how you're doing it that > it's all just a guess. > -- > -Zenin (zenin@archive.rhps.org) From The Blue Camel we learn: > BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC > Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only > medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least, > more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution". > when I'm running FreeBSD and Linux on the same machine (Pentium II) on this application, FreeBSD is 3.5 times faster than Linux -- Didier Derny didier@omnix.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message