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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:39:05 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31EAD699.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E106AF.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rvmtf$ven@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E3D9E2.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s5bl2$qpg@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E664EB.167EB0E7@inuxs.att.com> <4s67sk$oa9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E6B8AB.3E6C@indy.celebration.net> <4s7j2r$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7BD6F.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8sau$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E80933.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4saf55$dl5@verdi.nethelp.no> <87k9w6g6u4.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> <31E9D0CC.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <87ybklz05q.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45322 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23667 Peter Mutsaers wrote: > > >> On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:02:04 -0500, "John S. Dyson" > >> <toor@dyson.iquest.net> said: > > JSD> Peter Mutsaers wrote: > >> > >> I just measured lmbench on my machine with both FreeBSD and Linux > >> (both current). It is a P90 with 48M. > >> > > JSD> I don't want to start a controversy, but I would like to know > JSD> what the date was that you picked up your FreeBSD-current. > JSD> Lots of changes (improvements) have been made recently.... > JSD> (BTW, your numbers are pretty much in-line with what I would > JSD> expect.) > > The FreeBSD-current was completely current (I track it with CTM). > Cool, just wanted to know. It really appears that the OSes are near parity in many areas now. The UDP number, I can understand right now, but the shell fork/exec time is suprising from the Linux side. I know that I (we) have done some very aggresive optimizations, but I wonder if their BASH was linked with shared libs or something like that. John