Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:56:24 -0700 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> To: rse@engelschall.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SPECweb96 challenge Message-ID: <35376D98.7676B8AA@ibm.net> References: <35363396.CF5289F3@partsnow.com> <19980417123801.A9264@engelschall.com>
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Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > > > > Novell Web Server Pushes Envelope > > > > > > Novell, Inc. reached a SPECweb96 benchmark of 1639 running > > > intraNetWare 4.11 on a single processor Compaq ProLiant 3000. > > > > I saw this in Internet Alert, an e-mail newsletter. Since we know FreeBSD > > excells as a webserver under load, this is our opportunity to set up to shoot > > some crows out of the sky. I don't personally like ProLiant servers, but let's > > see if we can approximate their hardware and tune our software -- out of the > > box, no source-code tweaks -- to dominate this SPEC. Have you looked at it? > > > > 1) Obtain SPECweb96 test guidelines > > 2) Obtain equivalent test platform hardware > > 3) Configure FreeBSD for max serving performance > > 4) Configure Apache for max serving performance > > 5) Run test > > 6) Promote results heavily!!!!! > > > > My best hardware is a PPro180 with 64MB, so I don't have a new enough machine, > > but I think this is exactly the kind of thing we FreeBSD advocates need to do to > > promote FreeBSD -- and get the IW's and NWW's and Byte's to acknowledge us. If > > we've got TBDOSITW, let's _prove_ it. > > There is only one point you missed: the SPECweb96 benchmark costs $800 :-( > > Ralf S. Engelschall > rse@engelschall.com > www.engelschall.com Between apache and freebsd we can't find $800? I'm going to ask Jordan if we can approach this from the central POV by putting out an official challenge call on the site and on -questions, -newbies and -chat, and where we can send the money. Ralf, will you find out the rest of the particulars as to what we need to actually perform a rigorous test that we can put side-by-side with the payware geeks? I'm sure Jordan's a bit miffed that they held a freeware conference in his back yard and didn't even invite him. This is the kind of thing we all need to do to get noticed. I for one am glad to contribute to things like this, even if it means my software now 'costs money'. A few press releases and documented wins will do more for us than all the advocacy chatter in the whole usenet. I think WC CDROM has done plenty to forward the cause, I don't want to ask them to pay for it. Where do I send my $50, Jordan? In a general sense that info should be posted on the site, but here's a genuine Challenge to pursue. I think we should do it!!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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