From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 12:31:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05524 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05505 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:31:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id VAA13662; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 21:31:23 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 21:31:21 +0100 (MET) To: mark@vmunix.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD shines..[Fwd: Re: semaphore speed] Organization: KRST X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 05 Nov 1997 21:31:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: Charles Henrich's message of Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:47:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [long discussion about benchmark results in Linux/FreeBSD deleted] > [Tons of boring and meaningless benchmark results deleted] Has it occurred to any of you that your benchmark results are irrelevant unless you run the Linux and FreeBSD benchmark on the *exact* same machine? Only then can we start comparing figures. Even then, you have to have a comparable degree of customization in each OS to be able to draw any conclusions; it doesn't make sense to compare a production FreeBSD installation with a custom kernel and a vanilla RedHat installation with a generic kernel. -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"