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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:47:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Paul Dekkers <psd@worldaccess.nl>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD is slower than Linux !?
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Hmm... It might be revealing if you tried all of that with a couple of
compiles and a tar of /usr running simultaneously. Final combined
times may be more revealing.

-- Jay

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote:

>Hi
>
>I did some speed tests and I'd like to hear some reaction about this.
>
>	Linux	FreeBSD
>dd	2.61	4.95	dd if=/dev/zero of=/test bs=1024 count=5000
>gzip	12.50	11.01	gzip -9 test
>gunzip	3.86	8.12
>sync	4.21	0.9	-> So it seems FreeBSD writes everything to 
>			   disk directly?! WHY? This makes FreeBSD
>			   much slower!
>unzips	4.45	41.92	decompress the sendmail distr
>compil	353.79	371.87	compile sendmail (makesendmail)
>
>Yes, I used the same (slow) disk on my i486
>But I was really surprised discovering that FreeBSD is much slower in disk
>access than Linux, so why is the filesystem called FFS (fast-filesystem?!)
>;-)
>
>But, my main question -> I think FreeBSD is that slow because it writes
>everything to disk directly, without a good cache. Why is this like it is?
>This does not make FreeBSD very attractive for me to use as a fileserver
>(nfs or samba) or e.g. a mail server.
>
>-= Paul =-
>

-- Jay