From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 12 9: 0:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FAE37B416 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a041.otenet.gr [212.205.215.41]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3CG0QhX021305 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:00:27 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3CG0RMu003166 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:00:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3CEesKT002700; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:40:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:40:54 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bob Bomar Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <20020412144054.GB2610@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011110215343.C961@bsd.alexe.org> <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net> <20020411200534.A25472@ns.museum.rain.com> <20020412042041.GA80748@peitho.fxp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020412042041.GA80748@peitho.fxp.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 [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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message