Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:54:48 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Jason Venner wrote:

> time dd if=A bs=32k of=/dev/null count=5000
>
> linux box will use 90% of the cpu, freebsd will use 2%
> [given a decent scsi system]

CPU usage measured how? Time(1), perhaps? As most of the work done here is
done inside interrupt handlers, this might be a difference in accounting.
These numbers seem more than a little suspect. If you're going to throw
out such numbers, tell us enough that we can reproduce your experiment.
Otherwise, it's just boasting.

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