From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 13:28:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spade.pacific.net.sg (spade.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6223537B407 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@sg.freebsd.org) Received: from pop2.pacific.net.sg (pop2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.86]) by spade.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id f5DKSIo15847; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:28:18 +0800 (SGT) Received: from evilfry (spoff99.pacific.net.sg [203.120.94.99]) by pop2.pacific.net.sg with SMTP id EAA12034; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:28:17 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <00ae01c0f447$6ca3bfa0$635e78cb@evilfry> From: "James Lim" To: "Bill Moran" , , References: <01C0F423.EC969C60.wmoran@iowna.com> Subject: Re: Sysadmin Article Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:28:35 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 That i agree, there are more tweaks available for the FreeBSD system itself, besides those that the author implemented ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Moran" To: "'James Lim'" ; ; Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:14 AM Subject: RE: Sysadmin Article > The biggest goof they made is to run the system in the default > installation. I'm sure if they would have enabled softupdates, FreeBSD > would have been right up there with Linux. If they had created a custom > kernel, it would have been even faster. > The default sync mode for disk access is very reliable, but painfully slow. > > -Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Lim [SMTP:james@sg.freebsd.org] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:46 PM > To: johnp@lodgenet.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Sysadmin Article > > Hi, > > Based on numerous other articles that I > have read. This one proves to be giving very > incorrect results IMHO. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Prince" > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:14 AM > Subject: Sysadmin Article > > > > Hello All. > > Not wanting to start a flame war, has any > received and or reviewed the > > latest (July 2001) Sysadmin article titled: > > "Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance > Network Applications?" > > > > View article at: > > > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107 > a/0107a.htm > > > > I am not sure I believe the results printed. > > > > Comments? > > maybe move to freebsd-chat? > > > > --john > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to > majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body > of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message