From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 01:33:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F56216A4B3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daemon.li (daemon.li [213.203.244.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B81943F3F for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shammer@daemon.li) Received: from gina.daemon.li (dyn165227.wlan.jku.at [::ffff:140.78.165.227]) (AUTH: PLAIN josef) by daemon.li with esmtp; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:33:22 +0000 Received: by gina.daemon.li (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3A7786132; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:32:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:32:41 +0200 From: Josef El-Rayes To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031020083241.GA679@gina.daemon.li> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-Path: j.el-rayes@daemon.li X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Subject: bsd and linux benchmark X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.el-rayes@daemon.li List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:33:27 -0000 hi! i was wondering what you think about the bsd and linux benchmark by 'fefe', whether i should do a patch to add this one to our press articles or not. for all who did not read the article[1] by felix von leitner. he does a detailed benchmarking for a performance network programming speech. he benchmarks linux 2.4, linux 2.6, freebsd 5.1-current, openbsd and netbsd. although he is a well respected person, he is a big linux advocat and does not seem to be a bsd-friend, so it does not suprise that in his conclusion he proposes to use linux for high performance networking, while freebsd is 2nd. he does not give good comments on openbsd and netbsd. what do you think of this article, shall we link this one or not - or in other words is it really objective or not? -josef [1] http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/