From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 27 13:37:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01681 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01655 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id WAA06898; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:30:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16335; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:24:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980427222408.A16053@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 22:24:08 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: nik@iii.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Solaris calls Hotmail shots for Microsoft References: <19980427103813.03099@iii.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980427103813.03099@iii.co.uk>; from nik@iii.co.uk on Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:38:13AM +0100 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:38:13AM +0100, nik@iii.co.uk wrote: > In a leaked report, sources close to Hotmail said: "... its whole mail > server infrastructure is Solaris. NT couldn't handle it. On the web > server, they're running MP Pentiums and Apache on FreeBSD. They're ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > moving to Solaris for threads. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Does that mean we are not performing well enough without doing more on our threads implementation ? Someone with a good guess ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message