From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 8 14:16:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22104 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from redfish.go2net.com (redfish.go2net.com [207.178.55.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA22062 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@go2net.com) Received: from marcs by redfish.go2net.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zRNOq-0007Jz-00; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@redfish To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <361D105F.2E7757CD@pipeline.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This short article is now online at http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/nettools/1718/bench1.html If a machine has enough memory to keep most (for certain definitions of most) of the working set of the static benchmark content in memory, then IIS and NT do have an advantage over FreeBSD and Apache (both the OS and the webserver) due to various optimizations. Well, until NT crashes. The benefit of these optimizations in non-benchmark situations does exist, but it is questionable and quite situation specific as to if it is nontrivial or not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message