DragonFly BSD slower? Yep

[Walter Vaughan]

Walter Vaughan wrote:

> Hum. An offsite backup site was running FreeBSD 4.11-RC2 and as a wild 
> hair, I decided to see if DragonFly BSD would be faster.
> Before upgrading I ran a report that bangs pretty hard and ran it two 
> times, then I timed it.. 
> 50.631u 82.018s 2:12.99 99.7%   845+592k 2+7io 0pf+0w
> 
> I then installed DragonFly BSD 
> I then ran the same report once and it seemed much slower.
> I ran it again and it still seemed slower. I then timed it the third time 
> 55.288u 128.802s 3:04.85 99.5%  132+92k 1+7io 0pf+0w
> 
> Hum. At least in a uniprocessor environment it doesn't look so good.
> (Hardware? One of them 1.2 GHz Walmart.com $199 jobs)
> 
> filePro 5.0.13 freeBSD Native

In this case its that it's possible to reconfigure the magnetic 
particles on the winchester drive and make DragonFly BSD OS go away and 
build FreeBSD Release 4.11 totally from source code without having to 
fear anything untoward happening.

Ran same report twice and then timed it.

49.398u 82.093s 2:11.80 99.7%   845+592k 5+7io 0pf+0w

Hum. Slightly quicker than before. Using a FreeBSD "GENERIC" kernel and 
OS compiled and built using DragonFlyBSD tools.

So in uniprocessor environment using the DragonFlyBSD "GENERIC" kernel, 
DragonFly BSD is not a plus for filePro if speed is an issue. It runs. 
It seems to run just fine. It's just noticeably slower for the time being.

YMMV. IANAL.
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Walter "OS Junkie" Vaughan