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From: craig@tuna.progroup.com (Craig W. Shaver)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD shines..[Fwd: Re: semaphore speed]
To: mark@vmunix.com (Mark Mayo)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 06:42:46 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <19971105022925.47573@vmunix.com> from "Mark Mayo" at Nov 5, 97 02:29:25 am
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> 
> On Tue, Nov 04, 1997 at 12:03:09AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
> > 
del ....
> 
> Hmm. To verify, I just ran it on a PPro 150, 2.2-STABLE circa 
> Oct 1st:
> fcntl: 13.9273 secs
> ipc: 11.8795 secs

60mhz bus

> 
> On a PPro 200, 2.2.5-STABLE from today:
> fcntl: 10.9368 secs
> ipc: 9.40272 secs

66mhz bus

> 
> Now for the interesting part, a Pentium 166MMX:
> fcntl: 9.64589
> ipc: 7.66043

66mhz bus

> 
> Could it be a weird PPro thing? The only other difference in the
> 166 kernel is that the FASTER_5X86_FPU (something like that)
> is turned on. Oh yeah, the kernel is 2.2.5-STABLE from today as well.
> 
> I'll see if I have an older machine/kernel around and try out some
> more tests..
> 
> -Mark


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