From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 29 11:37:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05552 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05513 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00398; Fri, 29 May 1998 11:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:36:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Frank Pawlak cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTFM In-Reply-To: <980528041610.ZM1327@darkstar.connect.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 May 1998, Frank Pawlak wrote: > Can anyone tell me where I can locate some accurate and current information > describing why FreeBSD can carry heavier server loads than Linux? Well, I can spew features. I'd be tempted to run a comparison myself, if I had a good hit simulator :) A good look at the system in action is ftp.cdrom.com. FreeBSD's main features: . 4.4BSD's well tested TCP/IP implementation -- it _is_ the reference after all . Robusticity to low memory & disk space conditions . High quality, well designed, finely tuned VM system . Merged VM/buffer cache balances disk I/O caching with memory needs . System maintains interactive response even under heavy load . Scheduler scales well as process demand increases . Default setup of system daemons encourages good security Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message