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What about the context switch time? Are there any plans to improve
this, and also to reduce the number of context switches needed?


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:19:49 +0000, Josef El-Rayes <josef@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The results indicate that NetBSD
> > has surpassed FreeBSD in performance on nearly every benchmark and
> > is poised to grab the title of the best operating system for the
> > server environment.''
> 
> I think this is a conclusion drawn too early when there has not been
> any comparison of each SMP implementation.
> No one runs a toaster as a server environment.
> 
> greets, josef
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