From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 8 18:58:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20585 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20511 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA03643; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:27:12 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA04183; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:27:10 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981009112710.P3369@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:27:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Reginald Perry , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD22C21D@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F311@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F311@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com>; from Reginald Perry on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:16:46PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 8 October 1998 at 16:16:46 -0700, Reginald Perry wrote: >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Marc Slemko >> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:15 PM >> >> 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. > > From my perspective. I just wanted to be sure that the article was accurate > and that if what the article said about the cache limitation was true, what > the exact problem was if it indeed is a problem. > > The answer seems to be that the statement about the cache is incorrect, but > that there seems to be a bottleneck somewhere, but 1) its unclear where, 2) > its unclear that its a problem. Has anybody contacted the author? Offering help for isolating the problem might help. I'll do it if nobody else does or has. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message