Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:11:08 -0700 From: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com> To: Benjamin Lewis <blewis@vet.purdue.edu>, "'Branson Matheson'" <branson@widomaker.com> Cc: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: I'm almost afraid to ask, but.... Message-ID: <01BB5975.3A3024E0@jalapeno.habaneros.com>
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along the same lines - what's more important in serving up web documents and basic *text* database functions, integer or fp performance? Seems to me like integer performance is probably the more relevant. I'm trying to make some sense of all the SPEC numbers I'm looking at... ---------- From: Branson Matheson[SMTP:branson@widomaker.com] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 1996 5:23 AM To: Benjamin Lewis Cc: Neil C. Jensen; 'questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: I'm almost afraid to ask, but.... ------- Benjamin Lewis uttered with conviction: >Niel C. Jensen wrote: >> It's time for us to upgrade and buy a new Internet server; primarily >> running Aache and probably mSQL. Our present server is based on FreeBSD >> 2.1R, and I've been very happy with it (thank-you FreeBSD team!). >> Unfortunately, I'm getting questions from my colleagues re. the use of >> other systems (i.e. Sun Netra, Sun SPARC5, SGI WebForce Indy, etc). The >> feeling is that because we are not paying (through the nose, I might add), >> we are not getting quality, fast systems. I would like to get some hard >> evidence to support my arguments to continue using FreeBSD. There was a report on performance differences between Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux running on a pentium from the Usenix96 conference: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sd96/lai.html You have to be a usenix memeber to get it. -branson ======================================================================== ===== Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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