Re: DP performance

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danial Thom wrote:

> "kicks ass" is a relative term. In terms of
> kernel performance, say routing packets, FreeBSD
> 4 with one processor beats linux with 2 by a bit.
> And the trade off of that, which is what I'm
> getting at here, is that LINUX sucks ass with one
> processor. So in order to work well with 4
> processors you have to make the OS suck with 1.
> More people use 1, so you wonder what the world
> will be like with the geeks in charge. You have
> to make things worse for most people in order to
> appease the few. At least before, you could
> decide to use FreeBSD if you had a uniprocessor
> system. Now there is no choice at all.
>
> Frankly benchmarks bore me. They don't test real
> world things. A machines usefulness is the sum
> total of all of the things it must do to
> accomplish whatever task you have it doing. A
> linux 2.4 kernel will start dropping packets at
> 1/2 the point that FreeBSD 4 will, so I dont

	We are doing almost anything in order to make sure that UP performance
	has not been sacrificed too badly.

			-Hiten