From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 6 08:39:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08525 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:39:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA08499 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 13274 invoked from network); 6 Oct 1998 15:40:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.1) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 6 Oct 1998 15:40:02 -0000 Message-ID: <361A39B1.D4D90010@pipeline.ch> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:39:29 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav" CC: Eivind Eklund , Reginald Perry , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FF@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> <19981005222711.23452@follo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav wrote: > > Eivind Eklund 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