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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDi + AHA2944W + Eclipse RAID Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 01:03:20 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32A149D8.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <55j0ci$8l8@gol1.gol.com> <55tuo6$r02@news1.anet-dfw.com> <56e1qh$4t8@oldman.steinkamm.com> <57flh5$915@news1.anet-dfw.com> <57hih1$kp9@innocence.interface-business.de> 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: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> J Wunsch wrote: > Btw., Arne's attitude is very dangerous. Of course, Linux drivers are > even likely to beat BSD/OS drivers wrt. speed. (I'm not sure about > the Adaptec driver, this might not be the most brilliant point of > Linux. My comment is meant to be more general.) BSD/OS is IMHO often > picking a `conservative' route when a decision between `risky' and > `slower but more reliable' is to be made. This is certainly what the But don't forget that "performance" is more than just the raw bonnie benchmark results on a single-user machine. It's how well the system performance scales under increasing load. AFAIK, most *BSDs still beat your typical Linux system when you really start turning up the heat, good drivers or no good drivers. Server performance is a function of many more variables than that. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project