From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 8 14:45:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26442 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:45:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26419 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA04260; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:43:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 23:43:04 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Slemko Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ X-unnamed-manufactor: Datavarehuset IIRC From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 08 Oct 1998 23:43:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: Marc Slemko's message of "Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:04 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA26427 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc Slemko writes: > 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. Reminds me of the time when (five or six years ago) a norwegian computer manufactor which shall remain unnamed turned in one of their newest "home computing" models to PC World Norway for benchmarking. The computer they sent in had a caching IDE controller with 16 MB of cache, which at that time represented twice the amount of RAM (and one-eighth the amount of disk space) in an average home PC... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message