From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 20: 3:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.knology.net (user-24-214-63-13.knology.net [24.214.63.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66C4237B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@havk.org) Received: (qmail 29239 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2001 03:03:30 -0000 Received: from user-24-214-56-224.knology.net (HELO bsd.havk.org) (24.214.56.224) by user-24-214-63-13.knology.net with SMTP; 13 Jul 2001 03:03:30 -0000 Received: by bsd.havk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DEEF21A7D1; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:02:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:02:59 -0500 From: Steve Price To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding New FreeBSD BenchMark From Sysadmin Mag (left out a fiew tuning options) Message-ID: <20010712220259.E75539@bsd.havk.org> References: <20010712211356.D75539@bsd.havk.org> <200107130239.f6D2dFD134165@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107130239.f6D2dFD134165@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from acahalan@cs.uml.edu on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:39:15PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 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 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:39:15PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > 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... Right and Microsoft has sold the world that their OS is the best and have plenty of charts to prove it, yet day after day companies realize that Windows doesn't scale as Microsoft would have them believe. You can take whatever someone has the gall to publish as gospel. I'll take what I've seen in the real world and not some tests by what might be another biased company looking to make it "gold" with the fad called Linux. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message