Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:27:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot: A Linux vs FreeBSD WWW Server comparison ... Message-ID: <19990707102715.N35345@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907062146530.36396-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 09:48:03PM -0300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907062146530.36396-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Tuesday, 6 July 1999 at 21:48:03 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Just curious, anyone have any ideas as to why we'd be slower at executing > a cgi then Linux? > > http://perl.pattern.net/bench/ To quote: > The script was run three times and the results from the third run is > what appears below. To be cynical: we kept running the tests until they looked better for Linux. Seriously, it doesn't look as if the test was very well done, nor very representative. The scripts both produced "Hello, world\n". Possibly the overhead of starting new processes has something to do with it, since FreeBSD was significantly faster for the straight HTML tests. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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