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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@star-gate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:11:37 -0700
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Hmmm... you may find my lmbench interesting:
OS FreeBSD-2.2
CPU P100
32MB 60ns dram (darn is not sdram, bedo async sram, fpm ram, etc..) 

                    L M B E N C H  1 . 0   S U M M A R Y
                    ------------------------------------

            Processor, Processes - times in microseconds
            --------------------------------------------
Host                 OS  Mhz    Null    Null  Simple /bin/sh Mmap 2-proc
8-proc
                             Syscall Process Process Process  lat 
ctxsw  ctxsw
--------- ------------- ---- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ------
------
rah.star- FreeBSD 2.2-C   99       8      2K     10K     17K   97    
23     31

            *Local* Communication latencies in microseconds
            -----------------------------------------------
Host                 OS  Pipe       UDP    RPC/     TCP    RPC/
                                            UDP             TCP
--------- ------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
rah.star- FreeBSD 2.2-C      72     236     411     276     497

            *Local* Communication bandwidths in megabytes/second
  Host                 OS Pipe  TCP  File   Mmap  Bcopy  Bcopy  Mem  
Mem
                                  reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
rah.star- FreeBSD 2.2-C   48   13     36     53     43     39   65    83

            Memory latencies in nanoseconds
            (WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs)
            --------------------------------------------
Host                 OS   Mhz  L1 $   L2 $    Main mem    Guesses
--------- -------------   ---  ----   ----    --------    -------
rah.star- FreeBSD 2.2-C    99    10    115         180
          ----------------------------------------------------

Peter Mutsaers wrote:

>
> I just measured lmbench on my machine with both FreeBSD and Linux
> (both current). It is a P90 with 48M.
> 
>                     L M B E N C H  1 . 0   S U M M A R Y
>                     ------------------------------------
> 
>             Processor, Processes - times in microseconds
>             --------------------------------------------
> Host                 OS  Mhz    Null    Null  Simple /bin/sh Mmap 2-proc 8-proc
>                              Syscall Process Process Process  lat  ctxsw  ctxsw
> --------- ------------- ---- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- ------ ------
> plm        Linux 1.3.99   90       4    2.1K   11.5K     53K  404     14     19
> plm.xs4al FreeBSD 2.2-C   90      15    2.9K   13.6K     23K  102     37     45
> 
>             *Local* Communication latencies in microseconds
>             -----------------------------------------------
> Host                 OS  Pipe       UDP    RPC/     TCP    RPC/
>                                             UDP             TCP
> --------- ------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
> plm        Linux 1.3.99      51     260     624     400     786
> plm.xs4al FreeBSD 2.2-C     108     344     622     409     784
> 
>             *Local* Communication bandwidths in megabytes/second
>             ----------------------------------------------------
> Host                 OS Pipe  TCP  File   Mmap  Bcopy  Bcopy  Mem   Mem
>                                   reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
> --------- ------------- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
> plm        Linux 1.3.99   24  8.1   25.4   41.7     26     25   49    46
> plm.xs4al FreeBSD 2.2-C   25  9.0   27.9   39.6     26     25   49    45
> 
>             Memory latencies in nanoseconds
>             (WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs)
>             --------------------------------------------
> Host                 OS   Mhz  L1 $   L2 $    Main mem    TLB    Guesses
> --------- -------------   ---  ----   ----    --------    ---    -------
> plm        Linux 1.3.99    90    11    243         426    918
> plm.xs4al FreeBSD 2.2-C    89    11    204         428    925
> 

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Amancio Hasty                       
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