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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 23 Jan 1997 12:42:33 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5c8ifp$445@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c341j$3dp@cynic.portal.ca> <5c3k6o$qro@lynx.dac.neu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153851 comp.os.linux.networking:65922 comp.os.linux.setup:93572 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5695 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1987 In article <5c3k6o$qro@lynx.dac.neu.edu>, Michael Kagalenko <mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote: > Disk performance > benchmarks are limited by the narrowest bottleneck in the system. > Linux system in question is most likely to use IDE drives... I won't argue this, since the fellow didn't tell me whether he was using IDE or SCSI. But the Linux system was described to me as a `heavily loaded server.' Are the majority of Linux users stupid enough to use IDE on a `heavily loaded server'? You would know more about that than I would. > workstations (to which you misleadingly refer as "486-class machines"; > no workstation is "486-class machine", even if CPU speeds are comparable) I have a Sparcstation 1, a couple of Sparcstation IPXs, and various 486 systems ranging from 40 MHz to 100 MHz running NetBSD. I use them all extensively. A Sparcstation IPX is indeed a `486-class system' in terms of performance. I suggest you go out and actually use some Sparcstations in this performance range, rather than just blathering on without knowledge. > To make meaningful comparison, you have to run your benchmarks on the > same hardware using different OSes. Actually, I've done a lot of benchmarking on various systems running NetBSD, and it certainly is possible to make meaningful comparisons between these sorts of systems. I suggest you go out and get a pile of systems, controllers and SCSI drives, do some benchmarking on various combinations of them, and learn whereof you speak. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.