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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:

>according to benchmarks published in ix (ix is a german unix focused 
>computer magazine) the 2.2.x kernels of linux are less than about 10 - 15% 
>less scalable on multiple cpu´s (tested on 4 and 8 way x86 cpu machines) 
>than solaris and SCO´s unixes, I will check for the exact numbers, these tests 
>are based on benchmarks like the spec suite. I can remember an article in 
>daemonnews that said, FreeBSD was about 19% faster than Linux (do not 
>know which kernel freeBSD was compared to and the testsuite). The way I 
>interpreted that (may be wrong), the gap between commercial unixes and 
>FreeBSD/Linux is only marginal.

Except that compute-bound benchmarks are exactly what big-lock SMP
excels at.  Throw a good mixed benchmark at it, and tell me if you get
the same result. :-)

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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