Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:45:03 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot: A Linux vs FreeBSD WWW Server comparison ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907062240300.36396-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19990707102715.N35345@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 July 1999 at 21:48:03 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > Just curious, anyone have any ideas as to why we'd be slower at executing > > a cgi then Linux? > > > > http://perl.pattern.net/bench/ > > To quote: > > > The script was run three times and the results from the third run is > > what appears below. > > To be cynical: we kept running the tests until they looked better for > Linux. > > Seriously, it doesn't look as if the test was very well done, nor very > representative. The scripts both produced "Hello, world\n". Possibly > the overhead of starting new processes has something to do with it, > since FreeBSD was significantly faster for the straight HTML tests. The fact that the numbers were close *and* weren't heavily skewed towards Linux except on the cgi's is why I didn't immediate just shoot it down...the numbers weren't so far out as to give the *feel* of being slanted... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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