From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 6 18:45:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat197.79.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.197.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A99C150E5 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA82779; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:45:03 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:45:03 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot: A Linux vs FreeBSD WWW Server comparison ... In-Reply-To: <19990707102715.N35345@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. The fact that the numbers were close *and* weren't heavily skewed towards Linux except on the cgi's is why I didn't immediate just shoot it down...the numbers weren't so far out as to give the *feel* of being slanted... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message