From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 10: 3:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3627637B424 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nasby@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B71648E; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:01:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) id f3OH1gR03564; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:01:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:01:42 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Mike Meyer Cc: Dave Leimbach , 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> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net References: <21518787@toto.iv> <15077.43308.609040.214405@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15077.43308.609040.214405@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:26:20AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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. > > -- > Mike Meyer 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