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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:27:33 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 33 Message-ID: <31EE65F5.15FB7483@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E7C0DD.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s8tcn$jsh@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E80ACA.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <4sadde$qsv@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E9E3A7.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4sefde$f0l@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31EBB017.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <4sh2ip$2nk@fido.asd.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45706 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4111 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23943 Larry McVoy wrote: > > John S. Dyson (toor@dyson.iquest.net) wrote: > : Larry McVoy wrote: > : > Well, I doubt you'll buy it, but I agree with Linus that your message > : > certainly implied that Linux special cased the null syscal metric used > : > in lmbench. IF that was your intended implication, you may not have been > : > lying, but you certainly were implying something that simply isn't true. > : > > : Firstly, you are one of the first people that I have seen who apparently > : understands that a lie requires intent. Additionally, I was speaking of > : something inside of ME. I did not do it. > > Cool, we're moving towards a conversation, rather than yelling at each other. > I like it. > Thank you, Larry. I tend to be very focused, and sometimes don't see what I can be doing to other people. I think that I might be able to work with you in the future for some ideas that might be applicable for higher level benchmarks. As I have implied :-), I don't have the time or energy to do the entire suite (as you have said there is more to it than just getting the benchmarks to run on FreeBSD/Linux), but I do have some ideas. Some of them are embodied in some ad-hoc tests that I do. Additionally, I do have some benchmarks that show system performance under kind-of real conditions (like starting programs that do things in memory, not just exit :-).) BTW, FreeBSD and Linux both do pretty well in my tests. There are differences though. John