From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 21 23:11:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA18360 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA18316 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24920 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Aug 1997 06:11:49 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 23:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Tom Samplonius Subject: Re: Final request for help with release. (DPT boot floppy) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jaye Mathisen , Nate Williams Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Tom Samplonius; On 22-Aug-97 you wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > And then I'll just go back to solaris which works :) > > > > And is slower than a dog. I guess you'd need that RAID system to get > > decent I/O performance out of it. :) :) > > According to a simple test with dd that I ran on the identical > hardware > with 2.2-stable and Solaris 2.5.1 x86, the performance results are > basically the same. > > Tom I take this as a compliment. Thank you. How high is the load in your test. We reject here anything under 256 concurrent processes and release after 1024 concurrent processes ran continually for 48 hours. Then it goes to System Test which does who know what... Simon Almost forgot; Still have to see a Solaris box survive this test. Let alone perform as well as FreeBSD in these casual tests. Simon