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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!news.zocalo.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:45:00 -0700 Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden) Lines: 54 Message-ID: <31EA9FBC.41C67EA6@star-gate.com> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E7C0DD.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8tcn$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E80ACA.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <4sadde$qsv@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45307 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4059 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23650 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <31E80ACA.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net>, > John S. Dyson <toor@dyson.iquest.net> wrote: > >Larry McVoy wrote: > > > >> It's kind of fun to contrast this with the Linux crowd: > >> > >> BSD guys: "your benchmark sucks! your numbers are wrong! you mislead the > >> world! you suck! whine!" > >> > >> Linux guys: "Hey Larry, the null syscall benchmark is busted because we can > >> do a null syscall in about 1 usec. You need to change it so > >> it times in nanoseconds". > > > >I think that was a kind-of cute situation. We decided NOT > >to special case the syscall that Larry uses for the > >null-syscall case. > > John, John, John, calm down. > > You are suggesting above that YOU did not special case the system call > that Larry uses in lmbench, and by implication you are claiming Linux > does. Very subtly done, but > > YOU'RE LYING May I ask in which point do you think that Dyson is lying? 8) >beat you on system call latency (and I have to admit that I haven't even >looked at the FreeBSD numbers, so I'm just assuming that from your post If anyone needs to calm down around here is you, *linus*. Please don't assume either ask for the numbers or get them yourselves. P.S.: I can understand that your group has done a lot of work over the years and recently your OS may be suitable for server class category -- all I can say is congrats your OS is now almost as good as FreeBSD -- I am saying almost as good because until is not proven out in the field with your new networking code is just a little experiment in your box which we still don't know its configuration nor its OS version -- very very subtle, linus 8) -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD