Re: GURU needed: Linux vs. FreeBSD

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
04 Nov 1998 18:37:24 +0100


In article <199811031952.LAA22547@idiom.com>,
Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com> writes:
> Hard bad numbers:

> Linux uses far more cpu to move data to and from disk and to and from
> network connections than freebsd does.

Your test methody is flawed because a lot of networking and disk IO
runs inside software interrupts, which are not accounted by times(2).

-Andi

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