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From: imb@asstdc.scgt.oz.au (michael butler)
Subject: Re: Best platform for INN server?
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 14:58:50 GMT
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Christopher Hilton (chilton@MCS.COM) writes:

: I have a question. The FreeBSD 2.0 filesystem seems to be as fast if
: not slightly faster then then Linux filesystem on the same machine.
: What changes were made in FreeBSD 2.0 to accomplish this?

It gets even better with the 2.1 SNAP releases (assuming that the VM race
conditions will get fixed RSN :-(). 2.1 has a "unified" VM and disk cache
scheme similar in effect to the Linux implementation of same. However, I
still run my news serving from an Interactive SVR3.2 box because it isn't up
to that kind of speed yet .. nor is Linux for that matter,

	michael