Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

[Charles Sprickman]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Ceri Davies wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I guess that this might worth investigating:
>>
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~das/pbench/pbench.html
>>
>> (Unfortuantelly, neither tjr@ nor I have touched our patchsets recently.
>> A most recent snapshot of the two patchsets are here:
>>
>> 	http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid.diff
>> 	http://research.delphij.net/freebsd/pid-tjr.diff)
>>
>> Most of the work was to catch up with Aug 2004's -CURRENT, but it might
>> be easier to bring them up-to-date instead of working from the very original
>> patches =-)
>
> Looks great.  Any reason why neither has been committed?

Any idea what type of impact this patch would have on say, a large qmail 
server that's drowning in context-switches?

Charles

> Ceri
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