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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4f9skh$2og@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <311250C2.2781E494@public.uni-hamburg.de> <strenDM7Gr4.Cn2@netcom.com> <DMD8rr.oIB@isil.lloke.dna.fi> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:50:09 GMT Lines: 32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13903 comp.os.linux.development.system:17478 In article <DMD8rr.oIB@isil.lloke.dna.fi>, Riku Saikkonen <rjs@spider.compart.fi> wrote: >... >>about becuase some scripts I cooked up to thread a www archive of a >>couple of newsgroups takes an hour to make an index with about 1700 articles. > FreeBSD is sensitive to the order in which you do the stat. Those problems are being worked. You'll quickly see which one performs the best when the systems are under heavy load. > >So it might be more the program you're using (unless you use enough memory >to swap the thing out). Mine is a single C program of about 800 lines... > Yep, FreeBSD is sensitive to that. > >There's one thing I've been wondering about... From what I've seen, FreeBSD >seems to default to fscking the drive every night, while Linux defaults to >every 15th (? something like that) reboot. However, in my two years of >running Linux, I've never found a filesystem error except for the few times >when I rebooted non-cleanly. Is the FreeBSD filesystem more prone to errors >or are the distribution-makers just more paranoid? > Linux is more vulnerable to filesystem problems due to the delayed writes of metadata (and is the reason that FreeBSD is slower on file create/delete benchmarks.) We added an async option to our FSes to make the system perform much faster, but with similar risk as Linux has. The fsck's at night are a *mistake* and should be removed. John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org