From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 7 3:13:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61CF14D12 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 03:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA67365; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:11:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: nicole@nmhtech.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Interesting user of FreeBSD References: <199904052038.PAA11647@free.pcs> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Apr 1999 12:11:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: Jonathan Lemon's message of "Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:38:52 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon writes: > No - "Novell powered by Dell" is a custom Novell system (which appears > to beat everything else at this particular bakeoff). But then again, the > solution is not a general purpose OS, (as far as I can tell), so that's > to be expected. I recently had the occasion to compare Novell BorderManager running on three quad-Xeon Dell servers to Squid running on one dual-CPU SGI Origin 200. The Dell boxen died three times a day under one third the load the SGI handled. BTW, I've had reliable reports that Novell's cache is mostly Squid with polish. I suspect any performance advantage (real or perceived) stems from tighter integration with the operating system. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message