Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 23:04:45 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: nicole@nmhtech.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Interesting user of FreeBSD Message-ID: <370995ED.6F034BCC@softweyr.com> References: <199904052038.PAA11647@free.pcs>
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Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > In article <local.mail.freebsd-advocacy/XFMail.990405122330.nicole@nmhtech.com> you write: > > > > > > I found an interesting reference that I want to look deeper into but at > >http://bakeoff.ircache.net/bakeoff-01/ ( A Caching Server bakeoff) > > They have a nice link at the bottom for FreeBSD. > > > > Now what is most suprizing to me is at > >http://bakeoff.ircache.net/bakeoff-01/polyteam-pics/ (warning LARGE) > >3rd picture up from the bottom has a caption that reads "Glenn and Alex loading > >FreeBSD on the Novell cluster." > > Hah. > > Yes, both CAIDA and NLANR are using FreeBSD extensively, it's their > platform of choice for developing polygraph (the web proxy benchmark). > You might know them better as developers of the Squid proxy. OK, how do we get a Daemon News article out of them? ;^) > The bakeoff used approximately 80 machines as the "test harness" for > various vendor's proxies, and all 80 machines were running FreeBSD. > Peregrine, on the other hand, _is_ running on a 3.1 box (with my > tweaks) and performs almost on a par with the Novell solution on > the same hardware. Of course, we're running into a CPU bottleneck, > and they're running into a network bottleneck, so it's not exactly > a fair comparison. And an article about this! Hint! Hint! ;^) > I was talking to the Polyteam at the conference, and what they would > primarily like is for my changes to be folded into FBSD (which I should > submit for review sometime soon). Also, they are still using 2.2.8 > instead of 3.1, with one of the primary reasons being that the two-floppy > boot disk is a pain in the butt. > > What was also somewhat humorous was that Glenn clipped the UserFriendly > strip (the one that says "I'm not a devil, I'm a daemon!") and put it > up on the notice board at the conference. Funny, I've seen a couple of those floating around work lately, too. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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