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From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 23 Jan 1997 23:01:22 -0500
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Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
]In article <5c3k6o$qro@lynx.dac.neu.edu> mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) writes:
]
]>]Under Linux, last time I had direct experience with it I saw
]>]50-100K/sec read and write performance under NFS. [...]
]
]> Clearly, you have no idea what you are talking about. Disk performance
]> benchmarks are limited by the narrowest bottleneck in the system.
]> Linux system in question is most likely to use IDE drives, [...]
]
]Obviously, if you're getting 100K/s the disks aren't the bottleneck,
That is not obvious at all, considering that machine in question
was loaded and considering that IDE imposes heavier CPU load then SCSI.
]so your insults are misplaced, and you only show your own ignorance.
I am afraid you need to learn a bit more before trying to lecture others.
]Note follow-ups changed.
Duly noted, and reset.
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