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#! rnews 2242 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.maz.net!news.ppp.net!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD Message-ID: <1995Dec27.141044.1151@wavehh.hanse.de> Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg References: <4ag00h$ckk_001@martis-d221.sierra.net> <4avnbd$clc_001@martis-d228.sierra.net> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 14:10:44 GMT Lines: 38 jiho@sunset.net (jiho@sunset.net) writes: >> About the only thing to recommend either BSD over Linux is hard drive >> performance. The BSDs are very fast. >Well, actually it's not so simple. >Linux 0.99 at its best was somewhat slower than BSD at its worst, and like BSD >was all over the map, depending on where you were on the drive, how files were >allocated, what you were doing before the test, etc. >Nowadays, drive access in Linux 1.2 seems to have been considerably revised. >It no longer exhibits such a broad range of performance, and the narrower >range it does exhibit seems much closer to the average performance exhibited >by BSD. So BSD at its worst is somewhat slower than Linux 1.2 at its worst, >and BSD at its best is substantially faster than Linux 1.2 at its best. >Linux's virtual memory management really seems to get in the way of drive >performance in some circumstances, where it has no substantial impact in BSD. >Anyway, thought I ought to revise my statement a little. Not much to do with >deciding between the two BSDs, but people sometimes react to these sloppy >tangential commentaries.... >Like I said, FreeBSD is somewhat faster than NetBSD, but not dramatically once >you tinker with a few kernel build details, like MAXBSIZE. I recommend ignoring messages as this one that talks about speed and doesn't provide a single number. *Of course* BSD is faster than Linux :-) Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany - No NeXTMail anymore, please. Copyright 1995. Redistribution via Microsoft Network is prohibited