Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:15:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Siobhan Patricia Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tommy=20Hallgren?= <thallgren@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmark oddities Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0007270115210.3504-100000@superconductor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261554320.90440-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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heh, won;t happen if I can help it ;) -Trish __ Trish Lynch FreeBSD - The Power to Serve trish@bsdunix.net Rush Networking trish@rush.net On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Tommy Hallgren wrote: > > > I'm reading http://www-scf.usc.edu/~akhavans/Linux_vs_FreeBSD.pdf and have a > > couple of questions I hope someone here could answer. > > I thought this paper was quite poorly written, in general - for example, > the author is unable to stop gushing about Linux during the first half of > the paper (he talks about how standards-compliant it is, the "exemplary > performance" it achieves, etc) but then seems to switch abruptly > mid-stream, and comes to the conclusion that neither is better than the > other. > > There are several outright fallacies in his reasoning which invalidate > some of the conclusions and testing methodologies (such as the getpid() > thing, the claim (allegedly from a Linux manpage, no less!) that FreeBSD > copies the entire address space on fork(), the claim that FreeBSD can "run > fewer copies of the Apache binary" since the binary size is larger, that > it is unable to run on >2 CPUs), etc. > > Basically, it's so poorly done it's not worth worrying about (until it > shows up on slashdot, sigh) > > Kris > > -- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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