From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 4 01:16:21 1995 Return-Path: chat-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA21646 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 01:16:21 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA21606 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 01:15:26 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA04710; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 16:13:20 +0800 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 16:13:19 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Peter Wemm cc: dillon@best.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. BSD/OS disk performance In-Reply-To: <41u996$jdq$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: chat-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 29 Aug 1995, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Didn't Matt Dillon mention that his Disk IO comparisons between BSD/OS > and FreeBSD that showed that FreeBSD wiped the floor with BSD/OS? And > didn't somebody from UUNET suggest he was mistaken and challenge him > to post numbers, to which Matt responded by posting some benchmarks > showing something like a 5-times improvement? I'd *love* to see these numbers. BSD/OS used to only support the Buslogics controllers, and recently added NCR support, but I don't know how good it is. Probably still can't use the Adaptec 2940/3940 controllers. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org