Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:42:16 +0200 From: Markus Stumpf <maex-freebsd-hackers@Space.Net> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: green@unixhelp.org, drosih@rpi.edu, grog@lemis.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...) Message-ID: <19990624184216.U17353@space.net> In-Reply-To: <199906240353.NAA42270@gizmo.internode.com.au>; from Mark Newton on Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:23:19PM %2B0930 References: <19990623223038.A6422@Denninger.Net> <199906240353.NAA42270@gizmo.internode.com.au>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:23:19PM +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > > I've found FreeBSD to outperform NT-anything in any task you throw at the > > machine from web service to Samba for file and print service for PCs > > running Windows. > > Granted. Perhaps we're seeing an artifact of NT's developers focussing > on optimizing their system for good benchmark performance rather than > good real-world performance. > > 'twill be interesting to see the offical report to find out where the > various strengths and weaknesses really are. The weaknesses are obvious and well documented by Microsoft itself. We have a customer that insisted on using NT for its webserver. Yesterday we had trouble with the time stamp in the logs. It simply stopped at a specific time. After that the timestamp was all the same. The problem was: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q223/1/37.asp "This problem can occur if the server runs for more than 49 days without being restarted" planck(1:327) $ uname -a FreeBSD planck 2.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 23 16:49:02 CEST 1997 root:/usr/src/sys/compile/CHDKERNEL i386 planck(1:328) $ uptime 6:39PM up 590 days, 22:04, 3 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.08, 0.07 *********** This server is NOT idling, it's acting (besides other things) as a radius server servering some thousand dialins. Do you need any other arguments? \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development | mailto:maex-sig@Space.Net | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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