From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 23:38:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA23968 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from korky.fe.up.pt (korky.fe.up.pt [192.82.214.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA23960 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 23:38:04 -0800 (PST) From: ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt Received: by korky.fe.up.pt; id AA09483; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:39:22 GMT Received: from localhost by tom.fe.up.pt; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/16Oct95-1216PM) id AA32148; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:39:48 GMT Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:39:47 +0000 (GMT) To: spork Cc: Steve Hovey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux vs freebsd testimonial In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok. I will also tell my experience... On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, spork wrote: > Since we've gotten along fairly well in our migration from Linux, I > thought I'd share my experiences as well... I used Linux for almost 2 years and then changed to FreeBSD despite it lack of support of the Iomega ZIP drive (Official Support, I mean). > These have been the most trouble-free machines we've worked with. Some of > the recent security problems were a bit tough (lots of cvsup-ing), but > nothing compared to the nasty Slackware Linux Bug-o-the-month. The only Instead of using Slackware you could use RedHat which is much more safer. When a hole appears they imediatly release an update. This was the distribution I used. > reboots *any* of these machines have seen were intentional, which is > something I just can't say about Linux. Performance is much better, and I don't know what they did with 2.2.1 because the Byte Benchmark gave me this results (I will only print the average): Linux 2.0.18 (generic kernel from RedHat Linux 4.0)........ 10.5 FreeBSD 2.2.1 (generic kernel)............................. 12.9 FreeBSD 2.1.5 ('personalized' kernel)...................... 6.8 It's great... My FreeBSD box it's much faster than a Linux one! :-) About reboots in FreeBSD they are only intencional because this is the best OS of the world! But one I forced it to crash: 2 or 3 make worlds (I don't remember) and a make world in the X11R6 tree while cracking 1000 passwords at the same time! > We have to keep one Linux web server for compatibility with some odd > sourceless C cgi's, but the other two will be history soon. Our news > server is running Linux, but it's being replaced with a machine to be > named "fridge" which will have 3 SCSI busses and 15 drives, and of course > be running FBSD. That's nice. > > I must say, this has made my job much easier. Linux is just too > unpredictable when you don't have the time to play the > "kernel-of-the-week" game. One of the Linux boxes still does the routine > of freezing with no log entries or other hints; which is extremely > frustrating. FBSD just seems like it was meant to be in a production > environment... Remember: FreeBSD is not a clone! Linux is! i.e. FreeBSD is Unix(r) One more thing: Some days ago I forced FreeBSD to use 78 MB of swap while I was using 3 console windows, 2 xterms and a ghostview and it responded blindly. :-) With Linux I would have to wait for the things that were being moved from and out of swap. I am considering upgrading from 16MB to 32MB of RAM... I thing that FreeBSD will get much faster because it will use plenty of cache and buffers. Anyone agrees? > > Thanks to all involved, > > Charles > > spork@super-g.com > spork@inch.com > > On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > > A few weeks ago, my single linux box fried. I replaced both the hard > > drive (with an identicle one) and linux with freebsd 2.1.5. > > > > The machine runs majordomo, ftp, apache, and an irc server. > > > > The performance is way up there! Under linux it would frequently slug > > down to a crawl. under FreeBSD it just keeps zipping along. > > > > There is a very definite noticable difference in response and load > > handling. > > >