fooler wrote:
>
> "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
If you wanted to be REALLY pedantic, you should completely reformat
before installing each OS. This eliminates the chance of one OS living
in the 'sweet spot' of disk.
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