On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, michel beausejour wrote:

> NetBSD                                                    FreeBSD 2.0.5
> A3000 2meg chip/8megsFAST                             Dell 486Dx33 12megs (70ns)

> A3000 (040) running amigados         povray said that it took 12mins to render
> A3000 (040) running NetBSD-current   " " " "" " "" " " "" " ""18mins to render
> Dell 486DX33 running FreeBSD-2.0.5                             9mins to render

I have two guesses on this:  Povray is a memory hog, and is dependent 
more on fast available memory than on a fast processor at times.  

1) If Povray is causing a lot of swap activity, then the disk controller 
definitely becomes a factor in this.  Under AmigaDOS povray won't be able 
to cause a swap condition of any kind.  

2) The Dell can access all 12 of its megs in a fast continguous manner... 

3) The NetBSD kernel on the 3000 resides in chip memory, which may result 
in a slight slowdown in system calls ? ... 

People, correct me if I'm wrong.  These are hypotheses.

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