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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:27:33 -0500
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Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> John S. Dyson (toor@dyson.iquest.net) wrote:
> : Larry McVoy wrote:
> : > Well, I doubt you'll buy it, but I agree with Linus that your message
> : > certainly implied that Linux special cased the null syscal metric used
> : > in lmbench.  IF that was your intended implication, you may not have been
> : > lying, but you certainly were implying something that simply isn't true.
> : >
> : Firstly, you are one of the first people that I have seen who apparently
> : understands that a lie requires intent.  Additionally, I was speaking of
> : something inside of ME.  I did not do it.
> 
> Cool, we're moving towards a conversation, rather than yelling at each other.
> I like it.
> 
Thank you, Larry.  I tend to be very focused, and sometimes don't
see what I can be doing to other people.  I think that I might be
able to work with you in the future for some ideas that might be
applicable for higher level benchmarks.  As I have implied :-), I
don't have the time or energy to do the entire suite (as you have
said there is more to it than just getting the benchmarks to run
on FreeBSD/Linux), but I do have some ideas.  Some of them are
embodied in some ad-hoc tests  that I do.  Additionally, I do have
some benchmarks that show system performance under kind-of real
conditions (like starting programs that do things in memory,
not just exit :-).)

BTW, FreeBSD and Linux both do pretty well in my tests.  There are
differences though.

John