Messages in this thread | | | From | Terry Lambert <> | Subject | Re: Differences between FreeBSD and Linux system call mechanism | Date | Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:44:07 +0000 (GMT) |
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> > I'm starting to wonder. Terry normally knows what he is talking about, > > I was under the impression he just used big words and prayed 8)
Nice Ad Hominim. I mistype "call-gate" for "trap-gate", and now I'm a religious zealot. See my other posting.
> > 3) I'm not sure about Terrys definition of "efficient", but if he means > > required CPU cycles I thought that there were not that many left in > > Linux that FreeBSD could be better. Has anybody hard numbers for both > > kernels? > > lmbench is your friend. Im sure Larry McVoy can provide
LMBench is a set of microbenchmarks that aren't very predictive of real-world load characteristics. The best predictor of real-world load characteristics is previous measurements in the real-world under identical load (ie: if it too 500 cycles yesterday, it will take 500 cycles today).
Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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