From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 20 09:54:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11037 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11031 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@www.hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01529; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:54:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:54:18 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, support@yard.de Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD (performances) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA11033 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG give credit where credit is due. recent NFS benchmarks are almost laughable. time dd if=www2_otherlocal.tar.gz of=/dev/null bs=128k 219+1 records in 219+1 records out 28760021 bytes transferred in 3.411756 secs (8429683 bytes/sec) 0.000u 0.443s 0:03.42 12.8% 91+667k 0+17io 0pf+0w 3.4 seconds (that's freebsd 3.0-current options: nfsv3,intr,tcp,rw,bg) time dd if=www2_otherlocal.tar.gz of=/dev/null bs=128k 219+1 records in 219+1 records out 0.010u 1.550s 0:16.00 9.7% 0+0k 0+0io 84pf+0w an even 16 seconds (linux) [Redhat 5.1] (dunno the opts) this is on the same 100mbit segment. i'm using NFS over TCP and linux is using UDP (i think) both to the same Solaris 5.6 box. the FreeBSD box is my tuning (just the mount opts listed above), the redhat box has also been tuned by a linux user. i heard that linux now has kernel NFS but i doubt the stability and performance since it's so new. (still smirking) and they wonder why i run freebsd on my workstation... *sigh* if someone has a mount option for the linux box they'd like to share _please_ respond privately, i'd appreciate it as well as those on the list. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ On 20 Aug 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message