Please pardon me for somewhat off-topic thought here,
but I accidentally ran into a discovery TV program
about penguins and how they live in the severe cold
environment and apparently one of their major true
strengths is shown through all of the penguins in
the little field of snow and ice getting tight together
body to body, preserving the energy of warmth, thereby
surviving the extreme cold conditions.
What if the true strength of Linux as the operating
system will be the ability hundreds and thousands
of Linux machines to communicate and compute
together and at the same time make it easy to program
through using something like PVM and CORBA (PVM lanches
the objects, CORBA allows to use them transparently
of their physical location).
Is there by the way a project joining PVM and CORBA?
my apologies again,
Regards
Anatolii B.
----Original Message Follows----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms
SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!!]
Date: 16 Mar 1999 20:21:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sascha Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Any comments on that?
Well, I suspect SuSE 6.0 is still using a 2.0.x-based kernel, and as
such the whole comparison is kind of pointless. I don't think FreeBSD
supported SMP at all 2.5 years ago.
I'm always interested in good benchmarks, though, so if you have the
benchmark available somewhere, please send me a pointer. I bet the
performance is fixed in 2.2.x already, but I wouldn't mind making
sure.
Linus
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