Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:34:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jandrese@mitre.org Subject: Re: Real "technical comparison" Message-ID: <3B181881.178CFAE4@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105311437310.9434-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > How about a real benchmark? > > Good question indeed. All proposed benchmarks in this thread > have been geared heavily towards one system or the other and > are not at all "industry standard" benchmarks. > > > At www.spec.org I see SPECweb99 numbers for Solaris, AIX, > > Linux, Windows, Tru64, and HP-UX. FreeBSD must be hiding, > > because I don't see it. BSDI, Walnut Creek, and WindRiver > > all have failed to submit results. The problem with this, as has already been pointed out, is US$800; this is a volunteer project: are you volunteering? > > Go on, show some numbers. Stop hiding. > > *nod* > > We can all brag about our performance being better than > the others, but unless some actual numbers on a standardised > benchmark are being published, it's nothing more than just > bragging and bullshitting each other. Alll I really give a damn about is making my application work; I could never do that without a source-available OS for which my strategic modifications do not have to be released in source form, so that basically limits my choices considerably. > If FreeBSD's performance is as good as people say (which I'm > not doubting, at least as far as the realistic claims go), > then where are those impressively high specweb numbers? ;) I have posted a really cut down version of my real application requirements as a proposed benchmark. If you want high SpecWeb numbers, you should look at the AfterBurner Web server, which, AFAIK, has only ever run on FreeBSD. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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