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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: 17 Jul 1996 17:26:21 +0300 Organization: Aeon Net Lines: 43 Message-ID: <4sit6d$epu@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31EA9FBC.41C67EA6@star-gate.com> <DuLzKz.Fsy@kroete2.freinet.de> <31EB2C66.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45540 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4093 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23833 John S. Dyson <toor@dyson.iquest.net> wrote: >much more important than my ego. My worst fault in these threads is we finnish people do differ in the ego part from the rest of the planet... >It was not meant as a sly statement and IN NO WAY did I claim that >Linux is doing anything specifically to make the benchmark only run >quickly. I do believe that making the benchmark run quickly doesn't >necessarily make the system run faster in the general case, given >a choice between working on that and other things. Please reread >my comment on "TCP latency (...lucid...)." i dont know if it was only me who understood the john's posting the way he wanted it... but to me it has been clear all the way that anything running "nice and smooth" by some more or less artificial program is, as the borg would say, 'irrelevant'. notice here that i am not suggesting that the benchmark program itself would not manage to do the task its creator wanted, i am sure it does exactly that... but i am saying here, if it wasnt obvious to someone, that i myself tend to use my machine for something complitely different than measuring its _potential_... sure, ofcourse anyone willing to do that is free to run whatever they want to... furthermore, if we really do need to compare, i would _love_ to hear someone running similar system than what freebsd.org is with linux, now, _THAT_ would tell me more about what the thing is capable of and what it's not... anyone voluntaring? linus? i do admit assuming no one yet does... i do not want to accuse anyone from doing anything, but all i have to say is that i _do_ know the length of my dick without measuring it all the time, and i have to say i'm perfectly satisfied to the length. sure, it is only logical to assume someone posses a longer one, it doesnt make me feel any less secure. mickey sys/net admin, aeon net sys/net admin, super systems