Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:02:35 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An interesting read... Message-ID: <20010615100235.D1744@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <001501c0f56f$af7f3ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:49:20AM -0700 References: <20010614092753.A13828@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <001501c0f56f$af7f3ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:49:20AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Benchmarks that don't attempt to mimic real-life situations are not > generally > useful to consumers. Sure, they give hints as to where the weak areas are > that need work, but the fact of the matter is that all operating systems > have weak areas that show up when they are pushed to their limits. <...> I could not agree any more except that the guy was more examining things from a list server *programmer's* perspective (after all that's what he does) than an admin's perspective. I was unhappy about this test for the very reasons you cited. P.S.: I am just waiting when the first review will come out that says: "FreeBSD was a whole lot slower on my PC than RedHat so it must be crap" because since 4.3-RELEASE the write cache of IDE disks has been disabled by default (and softupdates is off too) -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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