From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 14 21:13:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from superconductor.rush.net (superconductor.rush.net [208.9.155.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F8C37B406 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@superconductor.rush.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by superconductor.rush.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f5F4DIJ02571; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:13:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:13:18 -0400 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Rajappa Iyer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysadmin article Message-ID: <20010615001318.F1832@superconductor.rush.net> References: <200106150223.f5F2NLW08368@panix1.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0us In-Reply-To: <200106150223.f5F2NLW08368@panix1.panix.com>; from rsi@panix.com on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. 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 * Rajappa Iyer [010614 22:23] wrote: > http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm > > Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Because they did benchmarks on systems without tuning. A simple email to the lists asking for help would have probably done a world of difference. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message