From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 19:39:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu (saturn.cs.uml.edu [129.63.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2754437B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu) Received: (from acahalan@localhost) by saturn.cs.uml.edu (8.11.0/8.11.2) id f6D2dFD134165; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:39:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200107130239.f6D2dFD134165@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options) To: sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:39:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010712211356.D75539@bsd.havk.org> from "Steve Price" at Jul 12, 2001 09:13:56 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Price writes: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:05:00PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> It's bad enough that a tuned FreeBSD box still collapses under load, >> while the untuned Linux box doesn't. > [snip] > > Is this a troll?! In my experience the exact opposite is true. > Of course YMMV depending on your "religious" views. You tell me what this looks like, remembering that the first graph shows time (lower is better) and the second shows mails/hour. http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0108/0108q/0108q_f2.htm http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0108/0108q/0108q_f3.htm Ah, never mind the untuned Linux box. Check out the untuned Windows 2000 box beating the tuned FreeBSD box. If pointing out the obvious is a troll, well gee... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message