Re: Is 6.x slower then 4.x ... ?

2006-07-17 Thread Andreas Hauser
brooks wrote @ Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:02:50 -0500: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:49:35AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > FreeBSD 6 is slower than 4 for some things and faster for others. That > should be expected since fine grained locking involves increased numbers > of expensive atomic operations (wh

Re: Is 6.x slower then 4.x ... ?

2006-07-17 Thread Andreas Hauser
brooks wrote @ Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:02:50 -0500: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:49:35AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > FreeBSD 6 is slower than 4 for some things and faster for others. That > should be expected since fine grained locking involves increased numbers > of expensive atomic operations (wh

Re: Is 6.x slower then 4.x ... ?

2006-07-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:49:35AM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > I've read/seen reports on -questions about this ... especially in an SMP > environment ... > > Is there any truth to this? > > One person that posted on -questions pointed out that when he tried to > point out the difference, he

Is 6.x slower then 4.x ... ?

2006-07-16 Thread User Freebsd
I've read/seen reports on -questions about this ... especially in an SMP environment ... Is there any truth to this? One person that posted on -questions pointed out that when he tried to point out the difference, he was told one of: a. It is either your hardware sucks b. your benchmark a