Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 10:05:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jackh@ballistic.com (Jack Harris) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Which is better Message-ID: <199606031705.KAA02904@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <31B30633.2D4C@ballistic.com> from "Jack Harris" at Jun 3, 96 10:35:15 am
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Jack Harris wrote: > > Dear programmers, > > Which is better for a server in an ISP. FreeBSD 2.1 or The latest ver of > Linux? And why is it better. Some people I know keep insisting how much > they LOVE Linux. Please Help Me out. ISP == networking. FreeBSD network code is substanially better than linux ISP -> lots of users (processes) FreeBSD context switch time is flat. Linux has an exponentially rising curve. the lines met at ~20 processes. with X and only one user i have 52 processes running at the moment. this is based upon the paper presented at usenix '96 "http://plastique.stanford.edu/~laik/benchmarks/index.html" i have heard linux users complain about this paper being flawed. never have i heard what the flaws are. hmmm... jmb ps. yes, i am biased. -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/
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