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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:02:38 -0700
From:      Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>
To:        Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>
Cc:        Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Nicholas Petreley <nicholas.petreley@wpi.com>
Subject:   Re: Screen Shot
Message-ID:  <353BF02E.9EE279CC@ibm.net>
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.980420194439.20973A-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU>

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The WEBstone webserver benchmark and the Byte suite are both included
with the FreeBSD distribution. We ought to be able to find comparable
published results.
> 
>         Are there any people interested in publishing refereed benchmark
> papers?  I find most people are compelled to look closer when you show a
> graph where the competetors have context switch time grow exponentially
> as a function of number of processes and FreeBSD has one that grows nearly
> linearly.  This is a valuable difference worth paying money for on a busy
> system.
> 
That's why I was excited by the SPECweb96 mark published for the Novell
system. Maybe we can get Nicholas Petreley to poke the InfoWorld Labs
into doing a fair cross-platform test with a pair of different
real-world webserver configurations, like, say 32MB on a P75 and 256MB
on a P-][? Each OS-vendor gets to set up its software as best it can,
given the config hardware and test website, then they run the test
battery. It would be perhaps a bit more complex to test, but we could
even allow CGI on one and Frontpage on the other, giving each team 2
weeks to code the website to a specification.

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