From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 24 12:35:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13C21541B for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:35:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01005; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199906241932.MAA01005@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tony Finch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:56:07 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:32:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Wes Peters wrote: > > > >Sorry to follow up on my own message, but I noted today in PCWeek > >their trip back to the benchmark lab includes ripping 3 CPUs and > >768M RAM out of the system, to benchmark how Linux and NT perform > >on "lower-end" hardware. They also allowed the RedHat dudes to > >switch to an Adaptec SCSI controller to talk to the RAID array. > >How are we holding up under this "diminished" configuration? > > It's stupid to tune everything for performance except for the web > server -- they should be using Zeus, not Apache. The Zeus evaluation license prohibits its use for benchmarks, and the Zeus folks failed to respond to any of my attempts to communicate. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message