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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:34:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Stan Osborne <stan@craigslist.org>
To:        billf@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advocacy/21238: poor performance; missed opportunities
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009121913380.30467-100000@cnewmark.craigslist.net>
In-Reply-To: <200009130119.SAA91063@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Ok take it that way.  Go ahead and close the PR without ever
consulting the person who submitted it in the first place.

Your tone/attitude may explain why FreeBSD is not keeping up with
the Linux hord.  Me, I'm trying to let the FreeBSD developer
community know what is happening in the real world.  I'm the
internal advocate for FreeBSD and one of the reasons we went to
the effort to evealuate FreeBSD.  I am very dissapointed that 
after trying to justify switching to FreeBSD we could not.

I can't provide our application software, but I will see if
we can come up with in terms of our ad hoc GDBM tests.

Most of what we do is serve HTML from Apache.  Check out our
web site http://www.craigslist.org/ to see what were were running
for the tests.    Our analysis was that simple HTML from Apache
was nearly the same on FreeBSD.

Our homemade search uses DBM/GDBM.  We were using whatever came
with 4.0.  Since it did not work well much effort was made researching
the support sites, searching the web, etc.  We tried everything
we could find to make this work better, but were not sucessfull.
This effort included hiring a consultant with much FreeBSD experience.
And collectively we could not get GDBM tests to perform as well as
they did on Linux.

As for your claim that I did not provide specifices, do you need
more information than my statement that we used FreeBSD 4.0?

Stan

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 billf@FreeBSD.org wrote:

> Synopsis: poor performance; missed opportunities
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: billf
> State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 12 18:18:48 PDT 2000
> State-Changed-Why: 
> User fails to provide benchmarks, specifics, details, or
> anything that would prove that he is not either clueless or a troll.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21238
> 



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