From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 9:26:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A17FC37B42C for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:26:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 37681 invoked by uid 100); 24 Apr 2001 16:26:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15077.43308.609040.214405@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:26:20 -0500 To: Dave Leimbach Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX In-Reply-To: <21518787@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Leimbach types: > FreeBSD 4.2 still beats linux in every network benchmark except email > handling... even in the 2.4.x kernels. It's probably the file system, which email handling exercies heavily. Linux runs their file systems in async mode by default (I'm not sure if this can be fixed), which makes the file system faster but less robust. If you're doing benchmarks, you can mount FreeBSD file systems async so long as you don't have softupdates enabled on the file system. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message