From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jun 15 1: 2:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (sol.serv.u-szeged.hu [160.114.51.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BF237B403 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA17106; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:02:36 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15AoYt-0004RT-00 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:02:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:02:35 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An interesting read... Message-ID: <20010615100235.D1744@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010614092753.A13828@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <001501c0f56f$af7f3ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001501c0f56f$af7f3ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:49:20AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:49:20AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Benchmarks that don't attempt to mimic real-life situations are not > generally > useful to consumers. Sure, they give hints as to where the weak areas are > that need work, but the fact of the matter is that all operating systems > have weak areas that show up when they are pushed to their limits. <...> I could not agree any more except that the guy was more examining things from a list server *programmer's* perspective (after all that's what he does) than an admin's perspective. I was unhappy about this test for the very reasons you cited. P.S.: I am just waiting when the first review will come out that says: "FreeBSD was a whole lot slower on my PC than RedHat so it must be crap" because since 4.3-RELEASE the write cache of IDE disks has been disabled by default (and softupdates is off too) -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message