From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 27 8:59:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E79437B4C3 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D0C43E77 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:59:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from [68.39.204.200] (bgp587257bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.204.200]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H1I00DOOF1VC8@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:58:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:58:42 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Is this still actual? In-reply-to: <3D6B9E78.6060407@myrealbox.com> To: Santos , chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 08/27/02 11:44 AM, "Santos" wrote: > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm and > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108q/0108q.htm > > Even with FreeBSD tuned, it only has similar performance comparing to > the others untuned OSes, including Windows 2000! I thought FreeBSD was > the fastest on x86. They used their MailEngine software but still.. > Maybe using a diferent MTA would show other favorably results? > So, why people say FreeBSD is the fastest, when benchmarks prove the > contrary? What has changed, perfomance-wise since that article (july 2001)? > Well remember first of all this is a benchmark of their application on FreeBSD. This is not a general FreeBSD benchmark. Also, imho, benchmarks are extremely subjective. The people running the benchmark are the biggest variable, their expertise and their agenda. IIRC they had in fact not simply used and untuned box but had mistuned the implementations. My benchmarks have always been personal experience. Now FreeBSD isn't the best tool for every job. But as a mail server it has never failed me. I've used primarily Sendmail or postfix and FreeBSD screams with those two when setup properly. HTH, Larry > > Santos > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message