Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:01:42 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <20010424120142.I22558@enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <15077.43308.609040.214405@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:26:20AM -0500 References: <21518787@toto.iv> <15077.43308.609040.214405@guru.mired.org>
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If this is the case, It'd be interesting to see how FBSD fared when running softupdates on /var. On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:26:20AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> types: > > FreeBSD 4.2 still beats linux in every network benchmark except email > > handling... <don't know why there.... :)> 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. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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 -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain-candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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