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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!EU.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Message-ID: <E4HoK8.II7@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: alt.flame Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <5c19pg$rf6@lynx.dac.neu.edu> <5c341j$3dp@cynic.portal.ca> <5c3k6o$qro@lynx.dac.neu.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 01:38:31 GMT Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:153984 comp.os.linux.networking:66016 comp.os.linux.setup:93683 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5715 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2007 In article <5c3k6o$qro@lynx.dac.neu.edu> mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) writes: >]Under Linux, last time I had direct experience with it I saw >]50-100K/sec read and write performance under NFS. [...] > Clearly, you have no idea what you are talking about. Disk performance > benchmarks are limited by the narrowest bottleneck in the system. > Linux system in question is most likely to use IDE drives, [...] Obviously, if you're getting 100K/s the disks aren't the bottleneck, so your insults are misplaced, and you only show your own ignorance. Note follow-ups changed. -- Richard -- "The Socialists had many branches in America, and the deceased had no doubt infringed their unwritten laws" - A Study in Scarlet