From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 26 22:15:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from superconductor.rush.net (superconductor.rush.net [208.9.155.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE09137C055; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trish@bsdunix.net) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost) by superconductor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA24309; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:15:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:15:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Siobhan Patricia Lynch X-Sender: trish@superconductor.rush.net To: Kris Kennaway Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tommy=20Hallgren?= , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmark oddities In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > 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