From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 28 0:50:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cu518.adelaide.adsl.on.net (cu518.adelaide.adsl.on.net [150.101.236.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D17737B41A; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.aus.com (laptop.ns.aus.com [10.0.2.6]) by cu518.adelaide.adsl.on.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fASAvR707046; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:27:27 +1030 Message-ID: <3C04AE82.6080302@ns.aus.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:59:38 +1030 From: Richard Sharpe Reply-To: rsharpe@ns.aus.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010917 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Nate Williams , Poul-Henning Kamp , Wes Peters , developers@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? References: <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011128015614.32e30d8b.wes@softweyr.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <25429.1006933507@critter.freebsd.dk> <15364.38767.82340.347344@caddis.yogotech.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <25429.1006933507@critter.freebsd.dk> <20011128153817.T61580@monorchid.lemis.com> <15364.38174.938500.946169@caddis.yogotech.com> <20011128183231.J61580@monorchid.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greg Lehey wrote: > I think I made a mistake by not opening this immediately. Certainly I > haven't seen any particularly animosity here so far, and Richard can > defend himself, so: FreeBSD hackers, meet Richard Sharpe. Richard, > meet the hackers. > > As I said, Richard's a member of the Samba team. He's also going to > be working on FreeBSD in the foreseeable future, so his intentions > here are completely honourable :-) He's sent me the report, but since > I didn't say I would send it to the entire development team, I'll wait > for his go-ahead (and the reply to a couple of questions) before > sending it on. I am quite happy for the report to be sent out. I do not believe I have an ax to grind here. While my background is more in Linux over the last few years, it has been fun to play around with FreeBSD (and it has more of an Ultrix feel to it :-). I am seeking to understand where I may have made mistakes, and not presented FreeBSD in its best light. Greg has already provided me with some feedback on that. However, I am also interested in where there might be some limits to concurrency (multiple people in the file system, etc), because in my new role I will be seeking to make it possible for Samba on a FreeBSD base to support 1000s to 10s of thousands of clients. -- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, LPIC-1 www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message