Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:20:58 -0700 From: perry@zso.dec.com (Reginald Perry) To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Dag-Erling_C._Sm=F8rgrav_'?=" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, "'Eivind Eklund'" <eivind@yes.no> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD Message-ID: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F302@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> In-Reply-To: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD06BB42@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com>
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I figured that there was a misinterpretation on the reviewers part. What I wanted to accomplish was to determine where the disconnect was and to see if there was a way that users could easily fix this. From the discussion so far, it looks like this wont be an issue unless you have a very high traffic site, but I still wish there was some correction that could be sent to these people. I like seeing FreeBSD in the press, but I hate misleading information. Also, Elvind just noted that the saturation point is the network saturation point. I wasnt so much worried about that as I was interested in this statement that "however, as you increase RAM, Windows NT surpasses FreeBSD because of a cache limitation in Apache and FreeBSD.". Otherwise I wasnt really worried about the article too much. It is entertaining that the 600 requests/second is the network saturation point. :-) -Reggie -----Original Message----- From: Dag-Erling C. Smxrgrav [mailto:dag-erli@ifi.uio.no] Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 2:30 PM To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Reginald Perry; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> writes: > I'd guess the benchmark interpretation comes from the reviewer doing a > wild guess on why FreeBSD was slower. Hear hear. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that FreeBSD lagged behind NT as load increased simply because they didn't have a competent FreeBSD admin tuning the box. There are a couple of things you can do to a FreeBSD system that will make it positively scream for Web use but aren't in the default config; the squid docs mention some of it (e.g. tuning the number and size of mbufs) DES -- Dag-Erling Smxrgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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