Date: 05 Oct 1998 23:30:04 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Reginald Perry <perry@zso.dec.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD Message-ID: <xzpn27a66jn.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of "Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:27:11 %2B0200" References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F2FF@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> <19981005222711.23452@follo.net>
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Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> 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
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