From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 21:46:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608A937B407 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA04927; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA14780; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:46:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA14776; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:46:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:46:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which OS is Fastest Article In-Reply-To: <3B3BECAF.262E56F4@gerhardt-it.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You may want to search the archives of this list for referances to this article. Basically those people who wrote the app didn't really know how to write it and make it work optimally for each system... They didn't even turn on SOFTUPDATES in FreeBSD. It was a poorly written benchmark of a supposedly real-world application (not really that real world) Ken On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > Has anyone read this article: > > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm > > "Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?" > By Jeffrey b. Rothman and John Buckman > Sys Admin July 2001 Volume 10 Number 7 > > I just finished reading the article and now I'm really confused. I was > always under the impression that FreeBSD was a top performer compared to > Linux, Win2000 and Solaris. The article suggests that FreeBSD is poor > in terms of raw performance according to the tests performed in the > article. I must say that the article does not take all factors such as > stability and security into account. > > I may be starting a pretty ugly thread, but I'm interested in what other > Sys Admins and FreeBSD users have to say based on real life experiences. > > - Scott > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message