Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:27:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Reginald Perry <perry@zso.dec.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC Magazine 10/20/1998 Article about FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981009112710.P3369@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F311@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com>; from Reginald Perry on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 04:16:46PM -0700 References: <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD22C21D@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com> <69CAF7F9AF57D2118D9A0000F881B4DD02F311@zsoexc1.zso.dec.com>
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On Thursday, 8 October 1998 at 16:16:46 -0700, Reginald Perry wrote: >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Marc Slemko >> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 2:15 PM >> >> This short article is now online at >> http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/nettools/1718/bench1.html >> >> If a machine has enough memory to keep most (for certain definitions of >> most) of the working set of the static benchmark content in memory, then >> IIS and NT do have an advantage over FreeBSD and Apache (both the OS and >> the webserver) due to various optimizations. Well, until NT crashes. >> >> The benefit of these optimizations in non-benchmark situations does exist, >> but it is questionable and quite situation specific as to if it is >> nontrivial or not. > > From my perspective. I just wanted to be sure that the article was accurate > and that if what the article said about the cache limitation was true, what > the exact problem was if it indeed is a problem. > > The answer seems to be that the statement about the cache is incorrect, but > that there seems to be a bottleneck somewhere, but 1) its unclear where, 2) > its unclear that its a problem. Has anybody contacted the author? Offering help for isolating the problem might help. I'll do it if nobody else does or has. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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