From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 28 14:45:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CAC37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost2.dircon.co.uk (mailhost2.dircon.co.uk [194.112.32.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9058343E65 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@blackmans.org) Received: from mail.blackmans.org (unknown [195.157.223.19]) by mailhost2.dircon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4D262F04; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:45:35 +0100 (BST) Received: by mail.blackmans.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B0BA51842; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:45:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:45:34 +0100 From: Mark Blackman To: Santos Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this still actual? Message-ID: <20020828224534.A68623@maddog.netscalibur.co.uk> References: <3D6B9E78.6060407@myrealbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D6B9E78.6060407@myrealbox.com>; from casd@myrealbox.com on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:44:56PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org a) he didn't do enough tuning even in the second instance b) he didn't give enough information about his application to allow further tuning. c) the biggest problem was that his application was binary only and you had to pay for it. FreeBSD is fine, faster on some things, slower in others. On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:44:56PM +0100, Santos wrote: > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm and > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108q/0108q.htm > > Even with FreeBSD tuned, it only has similar performance comparing to > the others untuned OSes, including Windows 2000! I thought FreeBSD was > the fastest on x86. They used their MailEngine software but still.. > Maybe using a diferent MTA would show other favorably results? > So, why people say FreeBSD is the fastest, when benchmarks prove the > contrary? What has changed, perfomance-wise since that article (july 2001)? > > > Santos > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message