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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
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Date: 4 Jan 1996 15:17:33 -0800
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In article <4cgklb$22ss@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>In article <4cg8es$1ih@knobel.gun.de>,
>Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> wrote:
>>Ok, there are really some benchmarks, where Linux has higher values
>>(I think it were fork or exec calls). But on the whole I made the
>>experience (it's about a year ago) that FreeBSD is the more balanced
>>system. that has much better response times when the system has lot's
>>of things to do.
>>
>>Benchmarks are benchmarks, real life is real life.
>
>Amen. [No, I don't assume you are a Linux enthusiast, Andreas,
>the following is just an observation I made]
>
>I think one reason Linux _may_ be faster in some
>circumstance is that it is sloppy when it comes to resource
>usage accounting.
If by sloppy you mean "doesn't do it", okay. But the commonly
accepted definition of sloppy implies an inaccurate half-hearted
collection of the accounting that _is_ collected, which doesn't
appear to be the case. (from my local dictionary, the closest
definition I can find to your implication is 'careless; slipshod',
which, IMO, is a definition that applies equally to NetBSD, FreeBSD,
and Linux. That is to say: Not at all.)
____
david parsons \bi/ FreeBSD doesn't support the 370? Boy, what a sloppy
\/ piece of code _it_ must be!