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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:01:46 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31E73BCA.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <4pf7f9$bsf@white.twinsun.com> <4rql4p$39f@innocence.interface-business.de> <4rrimn$dro@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E16DB5.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rtvpf$7e5@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45043 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4013 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23414 Larry McVoy wrote: > But given that the effect is only felt in exec and that exec is only > used for the process benchmarks, I fail to see why this was perceived > as such a big deal. I've included the results that I published in the > Usenix paper - please note that the FreeBSD machine was a 133Mhz P5 and > the Linux machine was 120Mhz P5. It's pretty lame of the FreeBSD crowd > to be saying I stacked the deck when the Linux box was slower hardware. Now Larry, at least try to be honest here.. You had TWO machines in your Linux results, a P5 and a P6. I was there, and it was the P6 numbers for Linux you crowed about most triumphantly, comparing them to the numbers for the P5/133 FreeBSD box more than once. I also noticed that the P5/120 numbers were given somewhat rather less attention in your speech, and when you really started going on about those P6 numbers and how they blew all the other PC benchmarks away (something you attributed rather bald-facedly to Linux rather than the hardware), the groans of disgust from the FreeBSD section were audible all the way in the back. I was scarcely the only one there who got the strong impression you were deliberately and knowingly stacking the deck. -- Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project