From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 17 9:37: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (smtp4vepub.gte.net [206.46.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE31537B40A for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:36:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-117-11.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.117.11]) by smtp4ve.mailsrvcs.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA43741186; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:36:29 GMT Message-ID: <3B2CDC8C.3C7E382A@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:36:28 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mhagerty@voyager.net Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS References: <200106162031.f5GKVfm16209@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <200106162104.f5GL4dX02015@earth.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > > A person who depends on the ability to run an out-of-the-box solution > into the ground and actually expects it to perform well without having > to know the first thing about the platform he is running his software > on is a complete and utter idiot and the company that employs such a > person has a hellofalot more to worry about then the performance of an > untuned machine. We are telling people that FreeBSD is primarily a good server OS, right ? Then it should come with the standard configuration tuned with this purpose in mind. Not "foolproof", not "workstation" but "high-performance server". IMHO this is a big problem with too many Unix (including Linux) and generally Open Source programs and systems. They allow to do great things after being properly tuned. However the default configuration supplied with them is utterly horrible by some mysterious reason. So the learning curve for them is quite steep and requires to learn the product in deep and tune it before using. Well, I do enjoy learning things, however tuning the same things in each new version over and over again for the 10th time becomes quite boring. This is not to say that Windows is better: the default configurations are usually slightly better but there is no [reasonably easy] way whatsoever to make them decent. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message