On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Jonathan Fortin wrote:
> Linux is tuned out of the box, where the others are tuned for
> stability.
Not quite. Linux distributions tend to be extremely
conservative in the IDE options (DMA, interrupt unmasking,
write caching, etc. all disabled) while FreeBSD seems to
have write caching and DMA on by default...
Both systems have tuning out of the box in different ways.
regards,
Rik
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