From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 16 12:50:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB78837B405 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBGKoLR13355; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:50:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <003201c18673$480bf9f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Gabriel Ambuehl" Cc: References: <001101c18662$3db42e20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <331062217277.20011216204618@buz.ch> Subject: Re: Re[2]: in-kernel web server??? Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:50:21 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gabriel writes: > Those in kernel webservers have been created > for one particular reason: to boost Linux > benchmark performance for a SPECweb test where > Linux was more than twice as fast as W2K. In other words, they built a special kernel in order to cheat on a benchmark. Of course, cheating is the rule on benchmarks, so they are not alone. > http://slashdot.org/articles/00/07/05/0211257.shtml Looks like another religious war. > I don't think they've really considered using > this stuff for production. It's like a magician's trick: Never ask to see it again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message