From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 5 14:41:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07001 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06890 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA11821; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:30:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 23:30:05 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Reginald Perry , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FF@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> <19981005222711.23452@follo.net> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 05 Oct 1998 23:30:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of "Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:27:11 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA06978 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund writes: > I'd guess the benchmark interpretation comes from the reviewer doing a > wild guess on why FreeBSD was slower. Hear hear. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that FreeBSD lagged behind NT as load increased simply because they didn't have a competent FreeBSD admin tuning the box. There are a couple of things you can do to a FreeBSD system that will make it positively scream for Web use but aren't in the default config; the squid docs mention some of it (e.g. tuning the number and size of mbufs) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message