From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 15:21:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B85B37B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:21:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0358C43ED4 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by proxy.example.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h08ICI8g001741; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:12:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E1C5D98.7060304@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:19:20 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Ellis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web write-up References: <98130130380.20030108095305@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Ellis wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results > of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than > favourable light. > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm It looks like garbage to me. He doesn't give enough information to reproduce his results, though I strongly suspect the FreeBSD box has softupdates disabled, and is therefore going to be slower. His writeup isn't even very good. On the initial page he claims they tested with FreeBSD, but on sidebar #2 he claims they used OpenBSD. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message