Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:20:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970922130135.12921B-100000@adam.adonai.net> In-Reply-To: <14710.874943531@time.cdrom.com>
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=>Hmmmmm. I FEEL that this report is somehow insubstantial, so much so =>that I think I'll just leave my comment at that. :-) => => Jordan Your sense of humor just kills me sometimes! (I assume you were being funny, at least). I have the unfortunate circumstance of having to work on a client site which is using linux on the pc's. From time to time I think that the response I'm getting from the machine I am working on feels a little crisper than my FreeBSD box (2.2.1). But then I have the reality check set in... This linux box I am currently using is nothing more than an x-server managing my windows showing what other machines are doing. For a 32meg p200 it's not doing too badly. My FreeBSD box, on the other hand, is * running several email lists, * getting about 1,000 web hits a day, (including java and cgi stuff), * mirroring my various client development environments several times a day, (which includes an RCS merge of newly mirrored programs), * running a prime number sieving program in the background (Hi, Richard!!!), * and even doing some bovine/rc5 stuff WAY in the background, * plus acting as a web development environment for two users, * and whatever else *I* might want to toss at it. It's a 128meg p133 (originally configured to handle 12 NT users) box. My response time is never bad, even with all of that happening. In fact it's at least as good as the linux box just running x. When I started running a bovine/rc5 process on this (the linux) box, I noticed a real response change. Not a bad one, mind you, but enough for me to easily notice. As for me and my house, we will use FreeBSD for everything we can! Lee
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