From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 23:52:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5534A37B429; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 73A1C78566; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:22:10 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:22:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: Nate Williams , developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011128182210.I61580@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 1:56:14 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 > "Nate Williams" 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 out of date, too.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