Date: 25 Apr 2001 09:38:08 -0500 From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Misinformation Message-ID: <988209490.10589.0.camel@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com> In-Reply-To: <m1snixglwz.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> References: <200104251242.FAA24271@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net> <m1snixglwz.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
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I guess all I really wanted was truth. Now that I have FreeBSD installed and have started playing with ports and writing my own software/running old linux apps/libraries I wrote on it I couldn't possibly "go back". My machine does a tri-boot of Windows (games), Linux (Not sure why anymore), FreeBSD (where I spend 90% of my time). It was someone on irc whom I can't remember who started me on this path of incorrect information. I suppose I should have simply asked my question here :). Dave <Leimy> On 25 Apr 2001 14:15:56 +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> writes: > > > I have run into a few people who made the following false claims about > > freeBSD. > > These people sounded like they knew what they were talking about when I > > first spoke with them. > > > > 1) Its based on Mach. > > 2) The SMP in FreeBSD is far superior to even Linux 2.4.x > > > > I am sure there were more. This type of "I don't know what I am talking > > about but it sounds good" attitude from whoever said it was very > > convincing. <I can't remember the person's name...>. > > I'm not sure who made the second claim, but I run a server farm. We > were completely a linux shop until 2 months ago. We had been holding > out for the 2.4 Linux kernel as our supposed saviour. 2.2.x had been > plagued by VM issues for the last 9 months. > > Upon loading 2.4.0 (problems also persist in 2.4.1) we found the > following: > > VM was still broken under extreme io and network load. > > Software Raid 5 was trashed - when trying to rebuild an array, it > would eat your disk. This was fixed in 2.4.1 > > So we bit the bullet and began the move to FreeBSD. It was a fairly > heavy learning curve (new init system, new packaging system, sysctl > for tweaking, etc.), but we're getting there. > > In all testing so far, FreeBSD has out performed Linux HUGELY. A Linux > box, dual PIII-500 with 512MB of ram was running a site. The load > average on the box was around 6-7. The site has been moved to a single > processor PIII-800, with 256MB ram running FreeBSD. Load is down to > 3-4 at peak times. > > So maybe the design is poor in some way, but the real world results > have been well worth the change for us ! > > Just my 2c. > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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