From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 7 1:30:13 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 1F522150A4 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:30:11 -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 01:30:10 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: Cc: "Phil Regnauld" , "Alex Perel" , Subject: RE: Cheesy benchmarks Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:30:09 -0700 Message-ID: <000501bec852$ecd0e860$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: <19990707031327.A37489@holly.dyndns.org> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > But what real good is that other than to get publicity that you did a > benchmark? I'm sure I can get better performance through lo0 than I would > through tun0, but what's the point? > Again, it all depends on what claims are being made. If the claim is just 'different things work differently, so you should always check" then hey, fine. Do a benchmark if you feel like it. I once had a fun time comparing how fast Linux could pump data through a loopback TCP connection to how fast our $100,000+ SGI system could. Linux beat it by a factor of 10. Did it measure anything useful? No. Did it annoy the SGI people? Yes. :) DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message