From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 27 09:52:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA01595 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:52:15 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA01588 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:52:11 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id JAA02832; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:52:07 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id JAA00187; Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:51:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199510271651.JAA00187@corbin.Root.COM> To: "Ron G. Minnich" cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L , Larry McVoy Subject: Re: New lmbench available (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 95 09:28:52 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 09:51:09 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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