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To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>
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        Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:51:09 -0700
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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. 

   Yes, Triton works *much* better. You should be able to get full 100Mbit
performance using a pair of 133Mhz Triton-based machines - I can tell you that
I get nearly 80Mbits when doing TCP from a 90Mhz Triton machine. The pipeline
burst cache also makes a tremendous difference, BTW...

-DG