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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1210 comp.os.linux:56100 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!hip-hop!Belvedere!root From: root@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David E. Fox) Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux References: <CEMA3n.DuE@rex.uokhsc.edu> Organization: Dave's really K-Rad Linux Box Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 19:13:35 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Message-ID: <1993Oct9.191335.3202@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> Lines: 27 Benjamin Z. Goldsteen (ben@rex.uokhsc.edu) wrote: [ quite a bit deleted ] : money -- testing). : Until we get a set of good, system-level benchmarks we can test a : few subsystems like I/O. Has anyone run Bonnie on a 386BSD and all the : various Linux filesytems under the exact same conditions (same What's wrong with the Byte Unix benchmark suite? One thing I'd like to point out that in my particular experience, floating-point sans coprocessor on 386BSD was miserably slow in comparison to Linux. I tried a whetstone benchmark and it took over 8 minutes of wall-clock time to complete. With a coprocessor, it took well under 1/10th of a second (rough guess). Linux doesn't show that wide of a difference with/without a coprocessor. I've a 386SX/16 :( with a Cyrix 83S87 :). : Benjamin Z. Goldsteen -- David Fox root@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us 5479 Castle Manor Drive San Jose, CA 95129 Thanks for letting me change 408/253-7992 magnetic patterns on your hard disk.