From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 17 12: 5:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maxim.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.24.22.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFF1937B407 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:05:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: (qmail 84479 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jun 2001 05:04:59 +1000 Message-ID: X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.21 16-Jun-2001 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:04:59 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Matt Dillon Cc: Sergey Babkin , "Albert D. Cahalan" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mhagerty@voyager.net Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS References: <200106162031.f5GKVfm16209@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <200106162104.f5GL4dX02015@earth.backplane.com> <3B2CDC8C.3C7E382A@bellatlantic.net> <200106171721.f5HHLIu06985@earth.backplane.com> In-reply-to: <200106171721.f5HHLIu06985@earth.backplane.com> of Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:21:18 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Matt Dillon wrote: | Out of the box, FreeBSD (and Linux) work just fine for virtually | anything you need to do, with very few exceptions. If you need to | run a huge multi-gigabyte database, or you need to run an EFNET IRC | server, or a USENET relay, or a SPAM mailer, then you have a bit of | tuning work to do. Otherwise it will just work. We tune our default | configurations for what most people need. We don't tune them to run | stupid benchmarks. This is indeed the case. I've been running FreeBSD releases from the CD subscription service since 2.2.6 on my own network and all my customer networks. I do build a new kernel each time so that I can drop all the drivers that aren't needed (as that halves the kernel size), but that takes only a few minutes per release and is a no-brainer. And then those boxes just run and FreeBSD just works and the performance for those real world operations is excellent -- reliability is 100% and speed is such that users feel that they're getting instant responses. That's the only kind of benchmark that matters. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message