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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
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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