Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:22:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011128182210.I61580@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com>
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On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 1:56:14 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 > "Nate Williams" <nate@yogotech.com> wrote: > >> >> FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new >> occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test >> platform. I recently updated it to FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, and I'm getting >> nothing but complaints about broken connections, poor performance, and >> very inconsistent results. >> >> They are now considering installing Linux on this box with the hope that >> they can get consistent results. (Unfortunately, FreeBSD 3.X is out >> because I convinced them that we needed to upgrade to 4.X due to >> security measures, so we can't go back.) > > And they somehow think any variant of Linux is going to be better on > this point? My recent experience with Linux would say otherwise, > but that was on an Intel Architecture Labs variant that is somewhat > out of date, too. Well, it ties in with Richard's experience. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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