From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 13:13:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [63.169.72.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4566837B409 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:13:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5DKDB932069; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:13:11 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Dave Leimbach Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysadmin Article Message-ID: <20010613131310.A14764@cpl.net> References: <200106131814.f5DIEgk05273@milo.ct.lodgenet.com> <20010613151102.A19077@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010613151102.A19077@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com>; from dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:11:02PM -0500 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 On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:11:02PM -0500, Dave Leimbach wrote: > > Look at the figures... this seems to correspond with the benchmarks that > Moshe Bar did at Byte.com benchmarking Linux vs FreeBSD showed that FreeBSD > basically sucked at email handling but was faster in basically every other > aspect than even the lastest Linux kernel.. > > [I think Moshe ran FreeBSD 4.1] > > here is the link: > http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010130S0012 I don't know if I would draw that conclusion based on that web site. The mail benchmarks were pretty even, and the authors conclusiion was that FreeBSD is very fast, and why he wasn't switched his Linux servers to FreeBSD. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message