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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?! Date: 20 Feb 1995 10:03:56 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3iab0s$hjl@ivory.lm.com> References: <3i7ar8$ahv@marton.hsr.no> <3i83js$avl@ivory.lm.com> <3iaaai$72u@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com In article <3iaaai$72u@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >I'm really really really wondering about this mysterious performance loss >you keep alluding to - please be more specific about the benchmark used >and give us some assurance that they were run on IDENTICAL hardware. >If you ran the FreeBSD benchmarks on a 386sx and the NetBSD benchmarks >on a 486/DX4 and are going to tell us that "you simply scaled the numbers" >or something, I am going to laugh until parts of me start falling off! :-) These were run on identical hardware. The benchmark is Dhrystone 2.1, which is more reliable than the 1.1 version I noticed others using as it is less affected by secondary cache. Here's the table. 1,000,000 runs through Dhrystone in each case. Machine OS One Ds (musec.) Ds/sec ======= ============ =============== ====== Blindman FreeBSD2.0-R 36.0 27,790.6 Blindman BSD/OS 1.1 27.9 35,820.9 Blindman NetBSD 1.0-R 27.8 36,014.4 -- ...................................................................... Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568 http://www.lm.com/~peterb