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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:28:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
To:        "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dyson@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@freebsd.org, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, lm@engr.sgi.com, iain@sbs.de, sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject:   Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.94.961203001921.29153A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612030434.XAA18481@jenolan.caipgeneral>

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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
>    Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 21:19:50 -0600 (CST)
> 
> Now here is an intelligent posting.
> 
>    Let the jerk win, because clearly Linux is superior.
> 
>    Benchmarks are always meaningful.  Real world heavy
>    duty applications mean nothing.

blah, blah, blah... blah, blah, blah blah...

> 
> I've never skewed benchmarks, if you think I have then please support
> such claims.  I'd be more than happy to be corrected.  I run all of my
> benchmarks with both systems running on top of the same exact hardware
> configurations, sometimes the same exact machine using the same exact
> disk installed from scratch for both sides.  How am I being impartial?
> 

Just curious, what was the benchmark you ran? I can't remember it being
referenced in the thread..

I'd like to run it on a few machines (ranging from DEC Unix, to Ultrix..)
and see how my machines are performing. lmbench seems to be the implied
benchmark, but I'd like to know for sure  =)

I'll give it a run on the 100MB/s net here, and the FDDI. Of course, the
PC's won't have the bus bandwidth to sustain transfer across the ATM
switch - but I'd like to make my own comparisons, whether the benchmark
represents the _real world_ of not is of no concern to me really. I know
how the machines perform during normal operation, I'm just curious about
how the benchmark will vary form OS to OS and from hardware to hardware!

Thanks,
-mark


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