From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 8 21: 9:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D037C37B405 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvh@ix.netcom.com) Received: from netcom1.netcom.com (user-2iniu37.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.120.103]) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA28374; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:09:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by netcom1.netcom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9C8B51141EE; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:08:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Harding To: chris@shenton.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <87wv6n0zb5.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> (message from Chris Shenton on 08 Jun 2001 11:24:46 -0400) Subject: Re: Lyris/SysAdmin mag: Fastest OS for Net Apps? Linux, Windows > FreeBSD References: <87wv6n0zb5.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Message-Id: <20010609040858.9C8B51141EE@netcom1.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:08:58 -0700 (PDT) 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 From looking at the article, they almost certainly did not turn on softupdates for freebsd - or mount the linux disk in a sensible way for a mail server... - Mike H. From: Chris Shenton Date: 08 Jun 2001 11:24:46 -0400 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Saw this on the qmail list and was intrigued. Good article, but disappointing to find that in their tests the speed winners were Linux, Solaris, Windows, and FreeBSD -- in that order. Is this due to FreeBSD's conservative disk commits/writes, or possibly thread inefficiencies, or something else? I find it hard to conceive of Windows implementations of anything being faster, but... From: John White Subject: Lyris performance and article To: qmail@list.cr.yp.to Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:42:43 -0700 SysAdmin has an article online by some of the top technical people at Lyris (remember Lyris?): Title: Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications? http://www.sysadminmag.com/newsletters/feature/ They use their MTA as a comparison tool, and crank it up to the equvalent of a concurrencyremote of 3000, though they don't seem to get much of a performance boost past 1000 on the hardware they're using. One of their conclusions is that their asynch multi-threaded software model outperforms the process based model which qmail uses. Is their methodology convincing? Well... However, and interesting read. John White To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message