Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:08:33 -0400 From: Rick N <solarux@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss... Message-ID: <BAY113-W23BB52547C981CAD1344D5A1D50@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <cone.1254242533.271161.79872.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <200909290226.CAA28246@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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"...Pick any colour you want, as long as its BLACK..." -its not always the car, its invariably the DRIVER !!! Obviously, as long that *IX works in your "real" world, then thats all that matters. Be situationally bound, NOT existentially. :) > From: lists@stringsutils.com > To: freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:13 -0400 > CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss... > > Moving to chat instead of performance. > > >> This was discussed in detail in slashdot.. starting with the fact that most > >> likely debug switches were not turned off for FreeBSD. > > > > "All of the FreeBSD and Ubuntu options were left at their defaults." > > > > My question is why is FreeBSD's disk i/o performance so bad? > > As I mentioned... this was discussed actively in slashdot. You will find > there many good comments on this. > > > Not just in the benchmarks with debugging on, but in real world usage > > where it actually matters. > > Are you saying this from actual experience or from reading other people's > comments? If it is from actual experience and XYZ version of Linux does a > particular job better then I don't see why you should not consider using > what works best. > > As someone who has had to use Redhat for over a year because that is what > this job uses... I would trade some performance for not having to deal with > all the peculiarities in Linux distros. > > Also, as mentioned in the slashdot article discussion, some of the reasons > Linux may do better on some operations are a tradeoff between > stability/security and speed. > > http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1384455 > > >From having to use Linux I have found some instances where FreeBSD may no > not be up to par (ie Java), but overall I would much rather use FreeBSD if I > had a choice. "Features" like the OOM killer are, in my opinion, extremely > poorly designed and likely worst executed. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live helps you keep up with all your friends, in one place. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9660826
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