From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 17:10:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4095F37B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from emerald.crystal.com.au (emerald.crystal.com.au [203.21.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C811A43EA9 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shaun@crystal.com.au) Received: from crystal.com.au ([202.165.76.30]) by emerald.crystal.com.au (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta19) with ESMTP id h091DmMl005367; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:13:48 +0800 Message-ID: <3E1CCBDD.9090209@crystal.com.au> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:09:49 +0800 From: Shaun Dwyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Ellis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: web write-up References: <98130130380.20030108095305@telus.net> In-Reply-To: <98130130380.20030108095305@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Ellis wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results > of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than > favourable light. > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm > > Please CC any replies as I am not currently subscribed. > I would tend to think that these people did bugger all in terms of performance tuning the FreeBSD box. It wouldnt surprise me if they didn't turn on soft updates for one. Other thing that is quite likely is they probably didn't make seperate slices for /, /var and /usr. I would guess that they did some (probably limited) tuning to the Linux box they were testing with. If you look at the 'Sidebar 2' page, they state a few OSs they use internally, Linux being one. I suspect that they might be knowlegeable about Linux, Solaris and Windoze and performance tuning each (look at what they use them for). The only BSD they have is OpenBSD for their firewall(s). Not much tuning needed there to get good network performance. Same goes with FreeBSD if all you are doing is using it for a firewall. Based on this I'd say they have little to no experiance tuning FreeBSD/*BSD for performance. That being said, anyone that claims FreeBSD's performance isn't that great is probably full of shit. Check their background, I bet they don't specialise in any sort of BSD, or have used it much at all :) --Shaun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message