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Xref: sserve news.software.nntp:14993 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4395 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16366 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!barr From: barr@math.psu.edu (Dave Barr) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun/Solaris or Pentium/Linux for new server ? Date: 3 Aug 1995 09:06:23 GMT Organization: Mathematics Department, The Pennsylvania State University Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3vq3if$jmp@dodgson.math.psu.edu> References: <3vlpgk$rdk@graphite.comco.com> <3vpg3g$q35@shell2.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: augusta.math.psu.edu In article <3vpg3g$q35@shell2.best.com>, Russell Carter <rcarter@best.com> wrote: >In article <3vlpgk$rdk@graphite.comco.com>, >Doug McLaren <dougmc@comco.com> wrote: >>for a bit at home, but am far more familiar with Linux. From personal >>experience, Linux's disk I/O is far faster, but Net/FreeBSD may make >>up for it in other areas/ > >Hmm, I don't think so! You might like to check out: > >http://www.geli.com/data/disk.perf.html > >And please point me to anything analogous on the Linux side! Talk to Larry McVoy <lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com>. A long-time FFS bigot who has seen the light and now-time Linux ext2 bigot. (and he knows his stuff -- he wrote the FFS clustering enhancement while he was at Sun) Linux's ext2 is faster than *BSD FFS, especially in the areas that count with respect to news (directory updates and file creation). Linux's context switch times, which used to be slower than *BSD, are now almost the fastest of even commercial UNIXes. But anyway, don't trust me -- Larry's got real numbers. --Dave