Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:04:59 -0400 From: "Bigelow, Andrea L." <BigelowA@SEC.GOV> To: 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org>, TM4525@aol.com Cc: "Bigelow, Andrea L." <BigelowA@SEC.GOV> Subject: RE: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? Message-ID: <DAFBDAFECE8ABA48A14ACFAE3707F41A020054A4@opc-sec-exch1>
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Can anyone speak to performance improvement if the debug flags are removed? -----Original Message----- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:04 AM To: TM4525@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org; BigelowA@SEC.GOV Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run? On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:55:37AM -0400, TM4525@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/6/04 6:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > kris@obsecurity.org writes: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote: > > Where's the documentation? I'd like to see this for myself. > > There is none, because Mr./Ms. TM4525 is making up his/her "facts" to > suit their assertion. The last time this claim was made it was > refuted and TM4525 promised to go away and check 5.3 performance. > > Kris > ---------------------------------- > > Actually, Kris, it wasn't "refuted", you said that the exceptionally > poor performance was "expected" until 5.3 was released, and implied > that anyone who expected good performance was making a fool of themselves. > > Search google groups for "freebsd 5.2 performance woes" and sort by > date to see my test details and subsequent comments by Kris and the > other FreeBSD Spin Doctors. > > My tests are very controlled, and my "assertion" is a result of > exceptionally poor performance in the test. And no-one "refuted" my > results. More like jockeying to save face. > > Nor did I "promise to go away". I promised to test 5.3 and post the > results. We're waiting..5.3 is in beta and ready for your tests. Other benchmarks show very good results compared to 4.x. Kris
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