From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 17:15: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC151502A for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 17:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp112.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.112]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04645; Wed, 5 May 1999 17:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:13:05 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Dale Anderson Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Not bright enough to >understand ????" What us IT people mean, is that running an >application under emulation means it will run a little slower, as that >middle abstraction layer has to emulate and that takes CPU cycles. >Another reason is that if you talk to some sort of tech support for a >product that isn't running quite right under emulation, they will just >tell us to "Go get the real platform to run it on." > Also, are applications need to run all the time, everytime. Users >don't understand the concept of downtime, and often our job performance >is rated on up-time. For these reasons, we like native applications over >"Emulated enviroments." Good points. The problem here seems to be the generally held principle that Linux emulation on FreeBSD in most cases out performs Linux itself. In one place a friend who could not get a native linux application running at all in Linux says it runs flawlessly under emulation. BUT, right now for the FreeBSD project, Linux emulation is it until we have a bigger user base and can approach the big guys with hardcore numbers. "10 million people currently use FreeBSD v X.x mostly in server applications. What are the chances that we'll see a native build of your product? If you need to know anything specific then here are the answers." Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message