From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 12 19:34:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from craigslist.net (www.craigslist.org [216.38.134.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 299DC37B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10007 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Sep 2000 02:34:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2000 02:34:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:34:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Stan Osborne X-Sender: stan@cnewmark.craigslist.net To: billf@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advocacy/21238: poor performance; missed opportunities In-Reply-To: <200009130119.SAA91063@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok take it that way. Go ahead and close the PR without ever consulting the person who submitted it in the first place. Your tone/attitude may explain why FreeBSD is not keeping up with the Linux hord. Me, I'm trying to let the FreeBSD developer community know what is happening in the real world. I'm the internal advocate for FreeBSD and one of the reasons we went to the effort to evealuate FreeBSD. I am very dissapointed that after trying to justify switching to FreeBSD we could not. I can't provide our application software, but I will see if we can come up with in terms of our ad hoc GDBM tests. Most of what we do is serve HTML from Apache. Check out our web site http://www.craigslist.org/ to see what were were running for the tests. Our analysis was that simple HTML from Apache was nearly the same on FreeBSD. Our homemade search uses DBM/GDBM. We were using whatever came with 4.0. Since it did not work well much effort was made researching the support sites, searching the web, etc. We tried everything we could find to make this work better, but were not sucessfull. This effort included hiring a consultant with much FreeBSD experience. And collectively we could not get GDBM tests to perform as well as they did on Linux. As for your claim that I did not provide specifices, do you need more information than my statement that we used FreeBSD 4.0? Stan On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 billf@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Synopsis: poor performance; missed opportunities > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: billf > State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 12 18:18:48 PDT 2000 > State-Changed-Why: > User fails to provide benchmarks, specifics, details, or > anything that would prove that he is not either clueless or a troll. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21238 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message