From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jan 8 15:10: 2 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B97937B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net (outbound02.telus.net [199.185.220.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EEA43E4A for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfak@telus.net) Received: from silverpenny ([216.232.36.68]) by priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with SMTP id <20030108230959.NUAY5251.priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net@silverpenny>; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:09:59 -0700 Message-ID: <001201c2b76b$10586f50$c601a8c0@silverpenny> From: "Peter Kieser" To: "Michal Pasternak" , "Terry Lambert" Cc: "paul beard" , , References: <3E1C8287.1020506@mac.com> <3E1C9249.551D6932@mindspring.com> <20030108220533.GB18151@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Subject: Re: [Fwd: web write-up] Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:09:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The interesting thing about this article, was it was just _recentley_ posted on slashdot. Heh, and we wonder why everyone thinks of slashdot as an incorrect news source, probably was posted just to downplay Windows & FreeBSD. --Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Micha³ Pasternak" To: "Terry Lambert" Cc: "paul beard" ; ; Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: web write-up] > Terry Lambert [Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:04:09PM -0800]: > > This is a very old article. All it demonstrates that the software > > that was used in the statistics gathering was written with bad > > assumptions by people who did not know how to make code run fast > > anywhere but Linux. > > We all know, that 99% of benchmarks and statistics are untrue, > but does any of you know about a recent surveys comparing > speed of (network|filesystem|vm|anything else) on FreeBSD > and Linux? > > I'm especially concerned about softupdates + dirhash compared > to ext3fs or reiser. NVidia's drivers performance should be > also easy to perform. > > -- > mp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message