From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jul 6 17: 3:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD5514CFF; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:03:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip145.houston3.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.12.169.145]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDC037074; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:03:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA35312; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:02:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:02:38 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Kris Kennaway Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheesy benchmarks Message-ID: <19990706190238.Q4158@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <19990706150944.I4158@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:27:11AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 6, 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > It seems someone who seems to be rather inexperienced has done > > some benchmarks with FreeBSD against Linux. They're so > > amazingly -- well -- stupid. > > > > http://perl.pattern.net/bench/ > > What's stupid about them? Apart from the fact that details of kernel tuning > (if any) and compiler options weren't specified, I guess. The fact that they're using the loopback device, and are making both the server and client on the same single machine. > > Kris > > ----- > "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, > because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." > -- Unknown > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Chris Costello My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message