Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:10:13 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 21st Century Unix - web serving Message-ID: <38D82B85.29686551@newsguy.com> References: <200003210130.KAA74668@daniel.sobral> <v04210100b4fcc78c7165@[128.113.24.47]> <38D74CB3.DF3AA476@newsguy.com> <8b8tle$22nj$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> I wish somebody would put some substance to such anecdotal stories.
> I'm currently quite close to a Linux box which gets slashdot-like
> effects (basically caused by minor access spikes and a badly written
> backend that causes the load to explode), and so far it seems to
> hold up quite well.
What's the swap (and general memory footprint) usage and i/o rate during
peak?
> And FreeBSD certainly doesn't work magic. A few months ago, I did
> a simple test. Ten processes, each one allocated some memory and
> ran in a loop doing nothing but continuously writing a byte to each
> page of its chunk of memory. I chose the process count and memory
> allocation to cover 1.5x the size of the real memory of the box.
> When I started the test, the hard disk light lit up solidly and
> for all pratical purposes the box ground to a halt. No more movement
> under X11. No more switching back to a text console. No more network
> login. I watched for some time with amusement and finally pressed
> the reset button.
Precisely what real-world conditions you planned to test with THAT? :-)
Hey, open a socket in each process to another server, and write
regularly to it. Then benchmark that in a FreeBSD against a Linux box.
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Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
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