Re: Linux: the next step

[Bob English <renglish@ratliff.engr.sgi.com>]

In message <199608122118.OAA18053@refugee.engr.sgi.com> you write:
>If I look at those benchmarks, they'll probably run faster on Linux on an Indy
>than they do on IRIX on an Indy, so I doubt the locking is the big problem we
>need to be looking at.  I don't have numbers from David to quote, so maybe I'm
>wrong.  I'd like to be wrong.

I was comparing Irix MP times vs. Irix UP times, and the difference is
both substantial and locking related.  Of course, if Irix were as
efficient on a UP as Linux, the difference might be a factor of 10
rather than a factor of 2 :-).

--bob--