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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...]
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 30 Nov 1994 02:05:45 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.94Nov29200545@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
References: <1994Nov28.194617.18912@system9.unisys.com> <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de>
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In-reply-to: andreas@wup.de's message of 29 Nov 1994 12:28:14 GMT
In article <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
Alex Dumitru (alexd@system9.unisys.com) wrote:
: Ok! After wadding through tons and tons of articles, I have yet
: to see some definitive numbers. Several people suggested running
: some test, but so far nothing.
I offered on the freebsd mailingliste a few benchmark results under
compareable machines.
SS2, 486/33 Linux Slackware, 486/33 FreeBSD 1.1, 486/33 FreeBSD 2.0 ALPHA
It would be a good idea to do that again with
FreeBSD 2,0 RELEASE
Linux XXXware (with XXX= Slack or LST)
using a 1.0.X kernel
and the experimental one, where SCSI driver or such might
be improved, using another write optimization (note:
as far as I know they need a apecial bdflush program for
the scsi cluster code).
Why leave out NetBSD-1.0???
: I have a 386sx/25 with 4Mb, with a 200+ MB IDE, Hercules card ...
: It is used right now for loading (and reloading) FreeBSD to get some
: notes down on the installation procedure.
What strikes me most are the 4 MB RAM. With that equipement I normally
wouldn't do a benchmark, since you aren't sure if swapping or paging
(depends on the amount of daemon programs that are executed when going
into multiuser mode) give strabge results ...
Definitely. You're not really comparing the OS as much there, but
just waiting on the disk. I think you'd want at least 8MB RAM to test
the systems with...
You wouldn't expect a benchmark of a SPARCstation with 4 or 8 MB in a
Unix Magazine, too ;-)
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
Working NetBSD ports: 386+PC, Mac, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4c, PC532
In progress: DEC pmax (MIPS R2k/3k), VAX, Sun4m
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