Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!!

From: Andreas Klemm <andreas(at)klemm.gtn.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:29:49 +0100

On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 03:14:31PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Andreas Klemm said:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:58:15AM -0500, Joseph Scott wrote:
> > > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > >
> > > I was under the impression that the general Linux community felt
> > > that the 2.2 kernel was the new stable. I always thought it was neat how
> > > the new Linux 2.2 kernel and the new FreeBSD 3 came out around the same
> > > time, and both seemed to make big jumps in their use of things like smp.
> >
> > No, FreeBSD SMP is in good shape since over a year or so ...
> >
> FreeBSD SMP needs in-depth work, but does work okay for most workstation
> loads.

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 ;-)

        Andreas ///

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