Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:36:34 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Linux speed on sun4c |
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Aaron Lehmann writes: > > NetBSD/Sparc's FAQ asserts: > > Why is NetBSD so much faster than SparcLinux on sun4c (top) > > The memory management hardware on sun4c machines (SPARCStation > 1, 1+, 2, IPC, IPX, SLC, ELC and clones) is not handled particularly > well by Linux. Until Linux reworks their MMU code NetBSD will be very > much faster on this hardware. > > Was there ever any truth to this statement? It seems to be light on > technical details. Have these purported issues ever been fixed? > > I don't want to be scared into running NetBSD on my SparcStation 2 :D.
It's totally true, use *BSD on your sun4c systems if top performance is your desire. :-)
I know how to fix it but frankly I have no desire to work on that platform any more.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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