On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:10:04AM -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > > > the benchmark you cited is for uniprocessor systems > > only. > > It says nothing about multiprocessor performance, > > which is what FreeBSD > > is aiming for. > Doesn't the (ULE) scheduler have a switch to ensure > that performance is optimal on a uniprocessor machine > too?
I don't know, but if it did that would only affect scheduling, and only in the ULE case at that. ULE was broken in 5.3-RELEASE. I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My only real concern are the process creation/termination results on FreeBSD. Ceri -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.)
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