Re: Linux Jobs: Update (FreeBSD vs. Linux)

From: fooler (fooler@skyinet.net)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 03:02:46 EST


"David S. Miller" wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:46:00 +1300
> From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
>
> > Anyways please let me know the results of the above experiment
> > on FreeBSD. Their memcpy() is not twice as fast as ours :-)
>
> The results are the same -- all I can think of now are hardware
> differences. The machines are bot PPro200's -- but perhaps one has
> superior memory bandwidth or something?

    you can benchmark with the same hardware by putting both OS on the same disk and you
can swtich them by using freebsd boot manager or linux loader.
    please let us know what are your findings because im planning to benchmark it also

    question:

        what metrics we should look at?

fooler.

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