Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 11:50:54 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Bert Driehuis <driehuis@playbeing.org>, "J.Goodleaf" <john@goodleaf.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmarks from SysAdmin mag Message-ID: <20010708115054.A26131@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200107080407.f6847Ex16767@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0107080307250.29990-100000@c1111.nl.compuware.com> <200107080407.f6847Ex16767@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:17PM -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <Pine.BSI.4.21.0107080307250.29990-100000@c1111.nl.compuware. > com>, B > ert Driehuis writes: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, J.Goodleaf wrote: > > > > > I lack the technical expertise to judge this article fully. Any thoughts? > > > FreeBSD comes out at the bottom, _below_ Win2K. > > > > > > http://www.samag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm > > > > >From the article: > > > > "If disk I/O occupies a significant run-time portion of your > > application, your disk I/O tasks will run up to 10x faster on Linux and > > Windows 2000, when compared to Solaris, or 6x faster than FreeBSD." ... > What's my point? Marketing. Yes, marketing. > > 1. Softupdates has been around for a while. Many of us, including > myself, use softupdates on critical production systems on a daily > basis, AND on root filesystems. Should not softupdates be the > default? If not the default, at least an option in sysinstall? It is an option in sysinstall in 4.3R onwards. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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