From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 09:19:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04875 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04859 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:19:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no (skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.2]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id SAA17713; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:18:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:18:27 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Didier Derny Cc: Zenin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, support@yard.de Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD (performances) References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 20 Aug 1998 16:18:21 +0000 In-Reply-To: Didier Derny's message of "Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:34:54 +0200 (CEST)" Message-ID: Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA04866 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Didier Derny writes: > when I'm running FreeBSD and Linux on the same machine (Pentium II) > on this application, FreeBSD is 3.5 times faster than Linux This sounds a little extreme. Of course, we like to believe that FreeBSD is faster than Linux, but a threefold increase in performance is too good to be true. Blame it on differences in configuration. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message