Date: 30 Jun 99 02:55:05 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Jordan K.Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, krooger@debian.org Subject: Re: [Re: [Linux vs. NT, take 2.]] Message-ID: <19990630095505.1598.qmail@nw173.netaddress.usa.net>
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Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 01:29:51PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Is there any validity to the discussion on -hackers that real-world= > > > application performance doesn't corroborate the poor benchmark = > > > results > > > (as far as FreeBSD is concerned)? I'm less concerned that = > > > benchmarks > > = > > Plenty. Netbench is notorious for not actually testing the load > > balancing abilities or performance degradation curve as the number of= > > users increases, both important factors in "real life" testing. > = > Another factor that is not taken into account in any benchmark is > general OS stability. NT may be able to kick our butts in some > application performance tests, but can they continue to deliver that > performance for a year without administrative intervention? I > doubt that most NT boxen are anywhere near that stable. Uptime > and platform stability is as important as performance. > = WRONG! This factor will not be taken into account by buying managers. I've worked with several companies on similar issues only = to draw a blank. One company for instance found a bug in a competitors unit. The bug manifested itself when a user sent 1024 bytes through the buffer, not 1023 nor 1025, "1024 bytes"! The bug would the lose the page in the buffer, never to be seen from again. The company then, after getting it's hands on the competitors mailing list sent everyone a one sheet page explaining the bug. The even went as far as send a diskette with a program to reproduce the bug. The results was less that 5% were interested in something different. Which amounted to hitting the red button on the front of the unit every day. --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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