From owner-freebsd-net Sat Mar 24 14:29:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.chartermi.net (060upc075.chartermi.net [24.213.60.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0875937B71B for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:29:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrath@shianet.org) Received: from danrc ([24.213.24.167]) by mail.chartermi.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71004U47242L33562S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:29:33 -0500 Message-ID: <00df01c0b4b1$e6d82570$0201a8c0@fear.wrath.net> From: "Brian" To: References: <20010323082845.A12797@clickarray.com> Subject: Re: Linux Vs. FreeBSD Networking Performance Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:29:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org great goobers of gahness. it's like comparing windows to any other operating system. I have never understood running Linux as a server based platform when FreeBSD and OpenBSD do it so much better. I'm pretty sure the only reason people even bothered with Linux to begin with was because it was new. Now they're doing it because it's "cool". I like FreeBSD. I despise Linux, the only flavor I can stand is Slackware. I won't use Linux because I don't believe in it as a server platform. If I wanted another desktop, I'd be running Windows. However, I have seen Linux do some amazing things (that FreeBSD can do a lot better). David Friedman runs a 38,000 client IRC server (twisted.ma.us.dal.net) on a 900MHz Thunderbird with 512MB of RAM. It also happens to be running Debian. The network is predominatly FreeBSD (in fact, the server application says FreeBSD only). When the network was in shambles, his machine took full load. Now he runs around 20,000 clients regularly. He's also got tsunami.ma.us.dal.net that's running a 600 coppermine on Debian. I know that twisted.* regularly swamps a T3. If you want to speak to him, you can find him on the network as "driz", I'm sure he'd like to shoot the shit with you. -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message