From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 15 16:33: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC0315447 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:33:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA22007; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:31:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd021926; Mon Mar 15 17:31:51 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA11136; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:31:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903160031.RAA11136@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!! To: travis@trickster.net (Travis Ruthenburg) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:31:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, dyson@iquest.net, joseph@randomnetworks.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, de-bsd-chat@DE.FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199903152150.QAA13458@trickster.net> from "Travis Ruthenburg" at Mar 15, 99 04:06:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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. If anyone is looking for a spin characterization, I suggest: FreeBSD SMP is approximately 120% of Linux SMP Or Linux SMP is only 84% as fast as FreeBSD SMP Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message