From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 15 13:51:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trickster.net (trickster.net [199.1.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECC9155D9 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 13:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from travis@trickster.net) Received: from [206.175.99.137] (hil-qbu-ppl-vty9.as.wcom.net [206.175.99.137]) by trickster.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13458; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:50:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903152150.QAA13458@trickster.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!! Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:06:21 -0500 x-sender: travis@wildebeest.trickster.net x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, January 22, 1998 From: Travis Ruthenburg To: "Andreas Klemm" , "John S. Dyson" Cc: , , Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 3/15/99 4:29 PM, Andreas Klemm (andreas@klemm.gtn.com) uttered: >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 ;-) That's great to hear. I'm sure everyone would be happier if FreeBSD's SMP performance was 99% better, but this way Linux Users won't automatically discount the results. IMHO, these are the kinds of tests and numbers FreeBSD advocates need. Travis Ruthenburg bjork bjork bjork travis@trickster.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message