From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 7 1: 5:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4C014E66 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:05:08 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Phil Regnauld" , "Alex Perel" Cc: Subject: RE: Cheesy benchmarks Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:05:08 -0700 Message-ID: <000101bec84f$6db395d0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <19990707101034.41857@ns.int.ftf.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think it's not so much that the results are skewed than the fact > that it's not even worth calling it a bench: > > - inconsistent setup > - no tuning description > - no optimization description > - no filesystem layout descriptions (it doesn't really matter, since > this one will obviously stay in memory) > > etc... > > It's just not a benchmark. What it shows is that Linux and FreeBSD are roughly comparable in their ability to serve simple web pages and CGIs, at least with loopback networking and in their approximately default configurations. It further shows that some methods of generating web pages seem much faster than others. That's about it. Is anyone making any other claims for it? DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message