From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jun 29 14:27:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B4D14BCD for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23142; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:27:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd023069; Tue Jun 29 14:26:58 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27977; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:26:54 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199906292126.OAA27977@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: [Linux vs. NT, take 2.] To: seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org (Seth) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:26:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, krooger@debian.org, jesus.monroy@usa.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Seth" at Jun 29, 99 04:22:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Talk to Mike Smith. FreeBSD's numbers are worse than Linux's. > > Is there any validity to the discussion on -hackers that real-world > application performance doesn't corroborate the poor benchmark results > (as far as FreeBSD is concerned)? I'm less concerned that benchmarks > aren't good than I am that my application performance suffers relative to > other platforms. That particular test is a packet capture of real world traffic, played back through the actual SAMBA code that would have been invoked by the traffic, and the playback rate determining the benchmark result. So for that particular test, the answer is "no, there's no validity to the claim that the benchmark is not representative of a real world load or real world expected results". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message