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Subject: Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > > I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS.  My
> > > only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > I guess that this might worth investigating:
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~das/pbench/pbench.html
> > 
> > (Unfortuantelly, neither tjr@ nor I have touched our patchsets recently.
> > A most recent snapshot of the two patchsets are here:
> > 
> > 	http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid.diff
> > 	http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid-tjr.diff)
> > 
> > Most of the work was to catch up with Aug 2004's -CURRENT, but it might
> > be easier to bring them up-to-date instead of working from the very original
> > patches =-)
> 
> Looks great.  Any reason why neither has been committed?

I've pinged Tim several times, but I think he's busy with his job
in the real world to worry about "jobs" in FreeBSD right now.
However, there's no rush.  There's a lot of lower-hanging fruit in
the fork/exec/exit path, including a gratuitous number of
acquisitions and releases of Giant.