From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 16 12:06:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11639 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11591 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:06:25 GMT (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04898; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: lrios cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux And FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:49:28 EDT." Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:06:12 -0700 Message-ID: <4894.892753572@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Could someone please explain to me why a Linux 75 mhz machine kicks the > hell out of a FreeBSD with a Pentium II 266mhz 256M Ram and two ultra-wide > fast SCSI drives??? Complete and total misconfiguration would be my first guess. > My linux machine puts out about 700 (locally)emails a minute while BSD > only puts > out about 200... my limits appear to configured properly. My kernel How are you testing this and what is generating these emails for the purposes of the test? What versions of FreeBSD and Linux? Same sendmail configuration on each? To answer this question intelligently would take a lot more data than you've given here, I'm afraid. > What are the differences in memory managers between the two?? Let's just say that they're different enough that drawing comparisons between them is probably not a meaningful exercise, nor would you guys be likely to understand the results of such a comparison anyway. > I've got a consultant here trying to get linux to do everything but with > the numbers I'm seeing it's hard to stay loyal.. Please help!! It's hard to help with so little information to go on. It's also hard to understand why you have someone working specifically on optimizing the Linux box but have no one to help you configure the FreeBSD machine with similar care. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message