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From: jonpike@neptune.net (Jon Pike)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
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Date: 10 Apr 1996 20:31:55 GMT
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Bill Nottingham (notting@raleigh.ibm.com) wrote:
: John M. Mills <jmills@ccrf-news.gtri.gatech.edu> said...
: :If anyone has a URL for this, it would be useful to post it.

: You can get it at:
: http://plastique.stanford.edu/~laik/benchmarks/index.html
: in PostScript form.
: (brought to you by the wonders of AltaVista...)

	I belive this address is changed now, but has a forward..
The Linux kernel used was 1.2.8, not even the "final" (1.2.13) one in the
stable line...  it was current when they made the tests, which says something
about how far back they were.   

	I had mailed Lai, and he reported a NFS test done more recently...
(and now available on their Web page) with I think, 1.3.68 and 69, before and
after the addidtion of cached writes.  Linux ended up going from about 400-600K
read and write xfer rate to +600K write/20Mbyte read rates!  FreeBSD was only
about 17Mbyte/sec on reads!   

	There was a thread on this in the Kernel developers mailing list, 
a while back.. (may still be in the Linux NET archives), where newer tests put
the later kernels equal to or ahead of FreeBSD in most networking areas.
Linus commented on how things have improved dramatically in most of the network
code, with more to come..   I wish I had some of the test results handy..

	Kevin Lai did mention the possibility of more tests on newer kernels
in the future..  also, their test suite of programs used for that paper is 
available on the above mentioned site.. give em a shot!.