Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:39:29 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Reginald Perry <perry@zso.dec.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD Message-ID: <361A39B1.D4D90010@pipeline.ch> References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FF@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> <19981005222711.23452@follo.net> <xzpn27a66jn.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: > > Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> writes: > > I'd guess the benchmark interpretation comes from the reviewer doing a > > wild guess on why FreeBSD was slower. > > Hear hear. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that FreeBSD lagged > behind NT as load increased simply because they didn't have a > competent FreeBSD admin tuning the box. There are a couple of things > you can do to a FreeBSD system that will make it positively scream for > Web use but aren't in the default config; the squid docs mention some > of it (e.g. tuning the number and size of mbufs) They can only tune what they know about. We should have a high-performance serving and benchmarking document like the Apache guys have. That's also the reason I asked DG about the tunings involved in wcarchive. It would be nice to collect the various tuning tip & tricks together and produce a tuning FAQ. I try to do that but my time is limited at the moment (I got sick). -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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