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#! rnews 1333 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsrelay.courtave.net!polo.iquest.com!news3.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:28 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 11 Message-ID: <32993EA8.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <87pw1jarx5.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <56vb5k$k8j@news1.iamerica.net> <m2ralnldz8.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <m2pw17kyln.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.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 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com Thomas Evans wrote: > Interesting is the network performance of Linux is 3X FreeBSD, I plan > on running other UNIX benchmarks for fun! More than interesting, this is almost unbelievable. I'd be interested in knowing exactly what versions of everything you used and the benchmarks in question. In particular, if you used the loopback device then you haven't actually tested network performance at all. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project