Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

[Chris Evans]

On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:

> Hmm, I cannot speak of all variants of hardware, but on my computer
> (64MB RAM, P200, SCSI NCR 815) there's a significant difference in
> favour of FreeBSD w.r.t. performance, especially when doing some
> memory intensive things at the same time.

Indeed. FreeBSD is still faster than Linux in maybe three areas.

1) Sequential swapping throughput, ie. linear sweeps through arrays much
larger than memory. Linux patches to remedy this exist but might not make
it into 2.2

2) NFS performance (Linux kernel 2.1 has rectified this).

3) Interactive performace during heavy I/O. Linux goes for throughput
here, whereas BSD is better interactively. Possibly due to prioritising
reads over writes?

Cheers
Chris


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