From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 12 12:10:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E2637B401 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D6A43E6A for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6CJApLA058605; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.5/8.12.4/Submit) id g6CJApAc058604; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200207121910.g6CJApAc058604@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Steve Bernard" Cc: Subject: Re: RE: anyone read this References: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's an old article, and also very wrong. There was a lot of hash over it at the time and the Authors got a mouthful. They republished after tuning FreeBSD: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108q/0108q.htm In which Linux and FreeBSD wound up with very similar results. However, the authors are obviously not very sophisticated, which should be obvious when you read the excuses they make in the republished article. For example, they recommend using 'async' file mounts which nobody in their right mind should ever do (on Linux OR FreeBSD). They also applied the many tuning suggestions blindly, without any real understanding of what they did, then complained about it (are these guys Linuxheads or something? They seem to think that the best OS to release is one that is pre-tuned to return the best microbenchmark results), and they complain that FreeBSD refuses to allocate infinite resources to the network by default (well, Duh! Real life is not a bowl of mailbox files!). Sigh. One of these days I will get annoyed enough to actually load Linux onto one of my test boxes and play turnabout. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message