From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200102062258.XAA01582@front7.grolier.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Jean Francois Martinez Subject: Re: Another Mindcradt case? Date: 06 Feb 2001 23:59:22 CET Reply-To: Jean Francois Martinez In-Reply-To: <01020623020100.01503@dox> References: <200102062024.VAA15550@front3.grolier.fr> <01020623020100.01503@dox> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Roger Larsson , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:02:01 +0100, Roger Larsson said: > Hi, > > Please note that Moshe is (usually) very pro Linux (read his earlier columns). > I guess that he had expected Linux 2.4 to really beat FreeBSD - it did not... > I was speaking about the reaction of pride Linux developpers had after the Mindcraft "benchamrks" pointed to design flaws in Linux. Here it is a BSD who could be beating the pants of Linux > /RogerL > > On Wednesday 07 February 2001 01:25, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > Moshe Barr is claiming on Byte that sendmail and mysql are 30% faster on > > FreeBSD than Linux 2.4. Now given that I don't think that mysql is > > spending 30% of its time in kernel mode there are not many ways FreeBSD can > > be 30% faster. > > > > 1) Compiler issues. Moshe Barr does not tell what distrib ha was using so > > we don't know what distribution was used and with what > > Here should have read "we don't know what compiler was used and with what compiler flags (like -O2 versus -O3)" JFM -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/