From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 9 13:37: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773D837B403 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15Jhm8-0004Ud-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:37:00 +1200 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:37:00 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Paul Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Benchmarks from SysAdmin mag In-Reply-To: <20010709125823.A71005@tribble.net> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Paul wrote: > I sent an email to webmaster@sysadminmag.com or whatever and asked them to > forward it to the authors... it was along hte lines of "Please don't > include FreeBSD in a performance comparison if you are unwilling to take > the time to tune it for your purposes." Unless you substantiated that message with clear and concise instructions on how to tune FreeBSD, and with at least some analysis on how that would improve the test results, then I would say that that was the wrong thing to do. Flaming a reviewer without constructive criticism lands you straight in the Mac Marines / Team OS/2 territory. -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message