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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1201 comp.os.linux:56060 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!yorkohm!minster!al-b From: al-b@minster.york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: FYI.. benchmarks on linux and 386bsd Message-ID: <750282279.25432@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: 10 Oct 1993 19:44:40 GMT References: <28tn7i$fl8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <CEH3Dp.A7I@dragon.dsh.org> <1993Oct6.184325.11583@finbol.toppoint.de> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England Lines: 43 In article <1993Oct6.184325.11583@finbol.toppoint.de> jschief@finbol.toppoint.de writes: [quoted articles deleted] > >Result: The BSD0.9 is 4 times slower than my private setup with Linux. > This system might be fast, but we have no advantage, > we can only use 12% of CPU performance, and 70% of memory. > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Joerg Schlaeger jschief@finbol.toppoint.de >24113 Kiel Tel.: ++49 431 682210 (voice) >--------------------------------------------------- Time for me to join in :-) I have a 486DX/2-66 with 16 MB RAM, Adaptec 1542C with two 250MB drives. I started of with Linux, because I had read about it in a German magazine. Then I decided to try 386BSD (I "emptied" a 50MB partition on the first disk). The Tiny Bootdisk worked fine, but it always crashed when trying to access the HDD. I have finally got the 386BSD binary distribution working, but I would not want to run any benchmarks with it... Why not? 386BSD will only boot off the harddisk if the internal cache is disabled AND the external cache is disabled AND the turbo button is disabled. Linux runs at the full 66 MHz and is plenty fast for me, so I will probably get rid of 386BSD soon. Five minutes to boot from a SCSI disk just isn't on! Linux does it in under one minute (with all sorts of goodies in /etc/rc). (These times are roughly from the end of the selftest) Andrew. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Lynch, Dept. of Computer Science, | Run, run, as fast as you can | | University of York, York, YO1 5DD, England | you can't catch me, I'm the | | E-mail: al-b@minster.york.ac.uk (INTERNET) | ginger beard man! | | al16@tower.york.ac.uk | | | AL16@UK.AC.YORK (JANET) | .sig by Anna Gramme | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+