From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 22 11:40:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relayout1.micronpc.com (meihost.micronpc.com [209.19.139.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3425337B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 11:40:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpsimerson@hostpro.com) Received: from mei00wssout01.micron.com (mei00wssout01.micronpc.com [172.30.41.216]) by relayout1.micronpc.com (2.5 Build 2640 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA06041; Tue, 22 May 2001 12:40:16 -0600 Received: from 172.30.42.5 by mei00wssout01.micron.com with ESMTP ( Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay(WSS) v4.5); Tue, 22 May 2001 12:40:17 -0600 X-Server-Uuid: 6b1d535a-5b27-11d3-bf09-00902786a6a3 Received: by MEI00IMC with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 12:40:45 -0600 Message-ID: <8D18712B2604D411A6BB009027F6449801B4B6DF@0SEA01EXSRV1> From: "Matt Simerson" To: "'Terry Lambert'" Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: technical comparison Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:40:11 -0600 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-WSS-ID: 17146D1B879615-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert@primenet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:59 AM > To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: technical comparison > > ] I work in an environment consisting of 300+ systems, all FreeBSD > ] and Solaris, along with lots of EMC and F5 stuff. Our engineering division > ] has been working on a dynamic content server and search engine for the > ] past 2.5 years. They have consistently not met up to performance and > ] throughput requirements and have always blamed our use of FreeBSD for it. > > You may wish to point out to them that their F5 boxes are > running FreeBSD. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org When did that change? As of March which was the last time I had my grubby little hands all over a F5 BigIP box in our lab, it was NOT running FreeBSD. It runs a tweaked version of BSDI's kernel. Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message