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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com>
cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, Brian Tao <taob@io.org>,
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        Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) 
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actually the big surprise for me was walking the results and seeing
freebsd outrunning linux in so many areas on the 100 mhz boxes. I knew
that it was marginally faster in places but the margin this time (except
for ctx) was surprising. Also the aix ctx results are interesting: kind of
shows the advantage of single-address-space operating systems, as opposed
to the unix model. 

It's useful to show freebsd performance at the limit. But it's also 
useful to show it on a plain vanilla 133 mhz box without $$$ boltons. 

BTW ttcp on freebsd on 100BT interfaces (SMC) is at about 56 Mhz. These 
are neptune, i understand triton would be better. 

ron

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