From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 10 21:24:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C09DB16A41F for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:24:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEEC43D58 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:24:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADAF1A3C1C; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4ACD6512CE; Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:24:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:24:24 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Danial Thom Message-ID: <20051210212424.GA80660@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20051210201601.GB79654@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051210211418.26194.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051210211418.26194.qmail@web33309.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Freebsd Theme Song X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:24:28 -0000 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:14:18PM -0800, Danial Thom wrote: > Well thats just hogwash Kris. Pure bridging > performance is a measure of the efficiency of the > kernel to do rote tasks like respond to > interrupts, and the latencies in performing those > tasks. Its the best way, IMO, to exercise and > measure the efficiency of an isolated kernel. It > requires no userland activity, so your results > aren't muddled by millions of system calls. Its a > way to compare apples to apples, which is how > good testing is done. >=20 > As long as you don't have your filesystem on a > network, you're in good shape. But thats not even > the point. The point is that the purpose of > tearing apart 4.x was to go MP, and MP > performance is dismill across the board. This statement is simply false. It's actually quite funny to read. For the readers at home: Denial is once again taking his narrow view of the world ("everything about the OS is accurately measured by how fast the kernel routes network packets!") and extrapolating it to infinity, then jumping up and down about it. Kris --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDm0eIWry0BWjoQKURAmFBAJwPgq/tJf9bo+W6ukG7ZwrVqOwxEQCeKZ1q 5ul6qMDoSgM0Bku2Mq02RZc= =dkTN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--