From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 12:04:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29322 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29310 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from EXIT10 (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.97]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA25350; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:03:09 -0400 (EDT) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: dg@root.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:05:10 GMT Message-ID: <35432f5d.444084@mail.cetlink.net> References: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199804251747.MAA11660@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA29318 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:47:57 -0500 (EST), "John S. Dyson" wrote: >I don't think that DG is saying that Linux is shrinking, but the rate >of increase in growth is decreasing ... There is intelligence between >the various Linux suppliers, and I suspect that DG knows such info. I did not see him post it. >That is probably why the Linux crew is getting *more* aggressive and >not less, and more self-assurred. The growth is flattening Besides Slackware sales at Walnut Creek, I have not heard any evidence to support this. While I have your attention, I found a BSDI source license at yard sale prices and decided to performance test it (2.1 and 3.0) against FreeBSD -current. I was surprised that my disk benchmark was about 5% faster with BSDI, even compared against the latest FreeBSD -current. And their NFS leaves FreeBSD in the dust. It's nearly as fast as a disk to disk copy on a single machine, and CPU consumption is lower. When all is quiet, BSDI running TOP shows 100% idle on a 486, and on that same machine, I've never seen better than 99.6% idle on FreeBSD. I wonder what they did differently to achieve that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message