From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 15 13:30:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED641538D for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA10318; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:30:25 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id WAA01274; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:29:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:29:49 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: Andreas Klemm , joseph@randomnetworks.com, travis@trickster.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, de-bsd-chat@DE.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!! Message-ID: <19990315222949.C1238@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19990315190228.A3020@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <199903152014.PAA13370@y.dyson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199903152014.PAA13370@y.dyson.net>; from John S. Dyson on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:14:31PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:14:31PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > Andreas Klemm said: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:58:15AM -0500, Joseph Scott wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > > > > I was under the impression that the general Linux community felt > > > that the 2.2 kernel was the new stable. I always thought it was neat how > > > the new Linux 2.2 kernel and the new FreeBSD 3 came out around the same > > > time, and both seemed to make big jumps in their use of things like smp. > > > > No, FreeBSD SMP is in good shape since over a year or so ... > > > FreeBSD SMP needs in-depth work, but does work okay for most workstation > loads. To bring in some new flesh here ... I repeated the tests with Linux Kernel release 2.2.3. And yes, the results are better ... But we are still 19% better ;-) Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas News : FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms Linux 2.2.3 by 19% ;-) See : http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/benches/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message