Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Performance Comparision | Date | Tue, 04 May 1999 08:24:45 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Otto Solares <solca@fisicc-ufm.edu> said:
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> This is where this benchmark gets in, not in compile time, again has nothing > to do with it, all the problem begins when HINT (a 9kb executable) is > running and it tells you how much the hardware can do in intervals of > time but the point is that in the same machine FreeBSD has a better > performance than linux, HINT overloads tha machine to its maximum > running floating point operations and it fill the L1 cache then the L2 cache > then RAM and then swap, then it finished telling you how much your > machine do. If somebody though about the poor linux performance in this > area i think we can achieve a better in unbeatable OS.
Optimizing the OS for horrible overload won't necesarily give you decent performance under realistic loads. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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