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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!isr0954!mitch From: mitch@isr0954.urh.uiuc.edu (Jon Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux Date: 20 Feb 1996 01:54:33 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4gb9kp$gl@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4er9hp$5ng@orb.direct.ca> <DMv8w7.8H4@pe1chl.ampr.org> <4g5ivp$28m@park.uvsc.edu> <DMzqnM.DnK@pe1chl.ampr.org> <4gbb2e$n25@zippy.cais.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: isr0954.urh.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14071 comp.os.linux.development.system:17680 toehser@cais.cais.com (Tom Oehser) writes: >>>3) Sync makes your machine go slower on a bogus-as-hell >>> create 1000 files/delete 1000 files benchmark that >>> really doesn't mimic normal system usage at all. >Uh.... in normal use, *my* system creates/deletes thousands of files, >just in the process of compiling new kernels, copying trees of files, >making backups, using news and www; I really don't know what you are >talking about, maybe a diskless workstation? -Tom Umm. get a clue, he's talking about all at the same time. Your system writes continously 1000 temp files for news and then deletes them before doing anything else? No, but that is however the behavior of a benchmark program. Jon Mitchell ***************************************************************************** * [Fun-Boy] Sleep is for weaklings! * jrmitche * * "There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep * @uiuc.edu * * and those who cannot. It is one of the great divisions * My views have * * of the human race." - Iris Murdoch (stolen from the * _nothing_ to * * pages of Stephen King's Insomnia) * do with ccso! * *****************************************************************************