From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 23 20:31:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (kdhome-2.pr.mcs.net [205.164.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C6314D44 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 20:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.3/8.8.2) id WAA06434; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:30:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990623223038.A6422@Denninger.Net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:30:38 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: "Brian F. Feldman" , Garance A Drosihn Cc: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:24:03PM -0400 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers will be LARTed and the remains fed to my cat Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:24:03PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > At 4:39 PM +0930 6/23/99, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >On Tuesday, 22 June 1999 at 23:52:25 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> [someone said] > > >>| [someone said] > > >>|> Ok, so let's follow Microsoft's industry-leading documentation > > >>|> standards. > > >>| > > >>| He said "commercial", not "toy". > > >> > > >> Given that I've just spent a very unhappy couple of weeks > > >> demonstrating that this "toy" you're referring to outperforms > > >> us by a factor of anything from 3 to 10 on a range of basic > > >> benchmarks, > > > > > > Really? This is so different from anything I've heard that I'm > > > astounded. How about some details? > > > > I also found Mike's comment on performance interesting. I assume > > he's talking about system performance, and not documentation > > performance. Was this when testing WinNT-2000, or just the latest > > service pack on WinNT 4? > > s/interesting/unbelievable/g and you've got my reaction. This makes so little > sense that I can't even imagine it. Me too. I've found FreeBSD to outperform NT-anything in any task you throw at the machine from web service to Samba for file and print service for PCs running Windows. Its more stable too; the stability is a free "bonus" that comes at no extra charge :-). -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: fathers.denninger.net I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message