From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 1 15:34:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDA637B422 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.128.214.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.128.214]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA14325; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 18:34:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B181881.178CFAE4@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 15:34:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jandrese@mitre.org Subject: Re: Real "technical comparison" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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