From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 13 00:11:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA26436 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@mindbender.headcandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA26426 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19854; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608130710.AAA19854@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Narvi cc: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD/OS webperf notes, anybody want to test FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 12 Aug 96 22:12:45 +0300. Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:10:22 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> http://www.BSDI.COM:81/products/internet-server/benchmarks/webperf.html >> I would think we could do better. >Sure. But we should not compare ourselves with BSDI, but with Microsoft, >I think. It would be quite good. There is another way in which we could >perhaps do the test - what would the benefit be in the difference in the >cost of hardware to serve as well as Microsoft does. A motherboard with a >meg of ram is a beast in itself... If you're going to bring cost into it, just remember that for many big organizations, the cost of the box and the software is one of the smallest parts of the equation of overall ownership cost... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------