Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:37:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>, Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <20011128183705.L61580@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20011128020321.C46769@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011128020321.C46769@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 2:03:21 -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> [011127 23:08] wrote: >> I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. >> He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will >> involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and >> while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates >> :-), he's noticing some significant performance differences, >> particularly on the TCP/IP area. >> >> He is going to be sending me a copy of his preliminary report later >> today, and he doesn't mind sharing it. I'm a little concerned about >> the "Them vs. Us" attitude such a report could cause. He's not out to >> show that Linux is better than FreeBSD; on the contrary, he would be a >> lot happier if the results were in favour of FreeBSD, since otherwise >> he has to do something about it. I'd like a few of us to take a look >> at what he's done first, and either point out where he can tune the >> FreeBSD system, or how to find and eliminate the bottlenecks. Who's >> interested? > > I'm somewhat interested, it obviously depends on the level of detail > and depth of this report, if it's as shallow as your and Nate's > 'rumors' then I probably won't be able to help as I'll be too busy > switching all my machines over to Linux rather than doing the legwork > to get down to the bottom of this alleged performance problem. That's uncalled for. I said that I had more information coming in, as you can see above, and Nate did apologize for lack of information. We don't always have the time to do the research we want. I certainly don't. Which would have been more useful: say to Richard "sorry, my plate's full", or "I can't help you, but I'll try to find people who aren't too aggressive to help you". Nate has given some information. You can't blame him for not having the time to do the legwork. 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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