Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:28:51 -0800 From: "EB" <busto@sbcglobal.net> To: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <000001c177de$54f3bf70$0100a8c0@ensh> In-Reply-To: <3C018888.7060508@microbsd.net>
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I'd be interested in the results, as well as potential for tuning that may not be "general knowledge" (i.e. not mentioned in tuning(7)). Regards. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of KERBERUS Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 4:11 PM To: Greg Lehey Cc: developers@FreeBSD.org; FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Sign me up Greg, I would love to assist, I also have performance tuned many systems even in a very secured state, just to get the last ounce out of them. Id be hapy to read/review on the results anyone has. Greg Lehey wrote: >I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. > >He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will >involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and >while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates >:-), he's noticing some significant performance differences, >particularly on the TCP/IP area. > >He is going to be sending me a copy of his preliminary report later >today, and he doesn't mind sharing it. I'm a little concerned about >the "Them vs. Us" attitude such a report could cause. He's not out to >show that Linux is better than FreeBSD; on the contrary, he would be a >lot happier if the results were in favour of FreeBSD, since otherwise >he has to do something about it. I'd like a few of us to take a look >at what he's done first, and either point out where he can tune the >FreeBSD system, or how to find and eliminate the bottlenecks. Who's >interested? > >Greg > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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