From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 25 9:15:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flex.com (flex.com [206.126.0.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1609814D8B for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from localkin@localkine.com) Received: from localhost (localkin@localhost) by flex.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA26998; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:13:15 -1000 (HST) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:13:14 -1000 (HST) From: Terrance Young X-Sender: localkin@flex.com To: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: benchmark "challenge" ... 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 John Reynolds~ wrote: > One of my friends who is a zealot in the Linux camp recently sent me this > article that he pulled off their kernel mailing list. It's from "mr. lmbench" > Larry McVoy: > I've been stress testing for the last day or so because I added a > 128MB DIMM and started getting crashes (turns out it is a known > problem with the FIC 503+ MB, so get the biggest DIMM you can > afford - it doesn't seem to like two of them at once). <-- Clip, Ouch was that my finger? --> > Not that, in the grand scheme of the planet, it REALLY matters, but what > sorts of "stress tests" do people routinely pull out of -current or more > importantly 3.1-stable? I still have a lowly 486 (upgrading RSN :), but > I've had more things running at 1 time under X than I thought possible for > a 486 (I used to "stress test" OS/2 by starting up gobs of things and it > would eventually require a reboot to come back to normal). It would have been > nice had he told us what CPU he was using--but I just have to believe that > FreeBSD is on par with this "impressive" (well it impressed him) Linux > achievement. The FIC 503+ Motherboard supports; (P54CT/P54CTB/P55C MMX)Intel Pentium 166~233MHz; AMD-K6 166-300MHz, AMD K6 2 with 3DNow! 266~400Mhz , & Cyrix/IBM 6x86MX & MII chips.. yeah, I think FreeBSD should do good compared to Linux, :-) I have a 2 AMD 586/133's running 2.2.6 and 3.0 and both perform great under load. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message