From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 07:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA17082 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 07:47:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA17074 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 07:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA11748; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:47:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from henrich) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:47:37 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199711051547.KAA11748@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: mark@vmunix.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD shines..[Fwd: Re: semaphore speed] Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <63pai1$2u9$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >On Tue, Nov 04, 1997 at 12:03:09AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: >> >> > Julian Elischer said: >> > > oops I sent this to the wrong address before.. >> > > >> > > participants: >> > > jallison: Samba guru: >> > > Andrew Tridgell: wrote Sambe.. Linux hacker >> > > Julian: yours truely: > > > >> > > FreeBSD 2.2.2 on a 200MHz pentium >> > > fcntl: 3.16579 secs >> > > ipc: 2.63504 secs >> > > >> > > Linux 2.0.30 on a PPro200 >> > > fcntl: 12.2177 secs >> > > ipc: 50.4559 secs >> > > >> > My results with FBSD-current on PPro200 >> > >> > UP kernel: >> > fcntl: 10.735 secs >> > ipc: 9.17823 secs >> > >> > SMP kernel: >> > fcntl: 17.8355 secs >> > ipc: 9.10841 secs >> > >> > It appears that the 200MHz Pentium results are for a really fast >> > machine :-). Is there a chance that there was an error in the >> > Pentium test? Or are the results correct? (Sometimes Pentiums >> > are paradoxically faster than PPro's.) I just want to make sure >> > that people aren't misinformed that FreeBSD is *that* much faster >> > than Linux... >> >> I just tried 2.2.0 (approx) on a pentium 90 >> I didn't have IPC compiled in, so I just did fcntl. >> yielding 7.22 secs. >> looks like we slowed it down more than a bit.. If someone will pony up the code their running, I'll give this a whirl on my P-II/300 -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich