From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 22 9:33:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D2237B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB2A43ED8 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b206.otenet.gr [212.205.244.214]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBMHXZQK010468; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:33:36 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBMHXYlG017366; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:33:34 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBMHSr9X017275; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:28:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:28:53 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222172853.GC16833@gothmog.gr> References: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20021222064026.GA421@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20021222065216.GA468@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222065216.GA468@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-12-22 01:52, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Meanwhile, stability under extreme loads (which may occur 0.1% of > the time) may be a priority for servers, but for desktop machines > and "numbercrunching" machines, raw performance the remaining 99.9% > of the time is far more important. Even on uniprocessor machines, > linux sometimes "feels" faster, if (or because?) it's somewhat less > solid (eg the async-mounted filesystem, etc), and these perceptions > eventually do influence user choice... Yup. I have heard the argument "but it feels faster" many times from Linux-using acquaintances & friends. This doesn't make the user choise any more correct or wrong though. The "feel" is not a very objective way of measuring things, and choises based on the general feel of a system are sometimes .. well .. unlucky? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message