Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:05:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org> Cc: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, Vincent Defert <vdefert@trace.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <19980215160519.03942@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34e88842.7309199@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 06:18:06AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980214223310.224B-100000@alexanderwohl> <34e88842.7309199@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Sun, 15 February 1998 at 6:18:06 +0000, John Kelly wrote: > On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:38:12 -0600 (CST), John Goerzen > <jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Konrad Heuer wrote: >> >>> 1. The Linux scheduler which is very different from other UNIX >>> schedulers (and thus the FreeBSD scheduler) behaves very poor when the >>> system is heavily loaded (no fair scheduling!). >> >> In comparing Linux to SunOS and Solaris in heavliy-loaded systems, I can >> say that Linux performed much better. However, I have not compared it >> directly to FreeBSD. > > I have. Linux comes apart at the seams under load. FreeBSD just > keeps going and going and going .... This ties in with just about every report I've heard about Linux, though I have no personal experience in the area. I also find it hard to believe that Linux should be able to beat Solaris 2 in this area. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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