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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: remember mary baker and kevin lai?
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	mary baker and kevin lai presented a paper at this winter's
	usenix conference comparing FreeBSD linux and solaris on
	the same hardware.  you all may remember there conclusions:
	linux is not the fastest but it doesnt matter.

	kevin has a new "data point" regarding NFS caching
	and the performance of linux vs FreeBSD.  he chose FreeBSD
	because "it's considered to have a high performance NFS
	implementation."  and "its more efficient networking
	implementation"

	the result is that linux does NFS caching. cached reads are faster :)

	http://plastique.stanford.edu/~laik/benchmarks/cached-nfs-results.html


ps.  plesae excuse the tone of this post, i have toned it down twice.
	before judging me too harshly please read the web page.

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Jonathan M. Bresler           FreeBSD Postmaster             jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/