Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:40:54 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <20020412144054.GB2610@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020412042041.GA80748@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20011110215343.C961@bsd.alexe.org> <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net> <20020411200534.A25472@ns.museum.rain.com> <20020412042041.GA80748@peitho.fxp.org>
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[Moved to -chat since this is no longer a "question" :)]
On 2002-04-12 00:20, Bob Bomar wrote:
> >
> > FreeBSD pushes the hardware pretty hard as it is. I would bet you
> > a dozen doughnuts that FreeBSD at 850 MHz will outperform Win2k at
> > 1 GHz.
>
> I will actually prove that. My P-166 running 4.4-Release, apache,
> postfix, mysql, and DNS ran faster than my PII-400 running just a
> base Win 98. I mean faster as in, it started up faster, and it ran
> Star Office faster, did i metion that the P-166 was running X?
That's a highly subjective metric though. My FreeBSD machine feels a
lot more responsive than those Windows XP machines with faster CPUs a
and larger amounts of RAM I've seen friends work on. But how does one
define an objective metric of 'responsiveness'?
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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