Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:14:11 -0700 From: rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Bob Bomar <bulldog@fxp.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: overclocking and freebsd Message-ID: <3CB8C9D3.CF6ADBEF@pythonemproject.com> References: <20011110215343.C961@bsd.alexe.org> <20020411182041.H45395@darius.2y.net> <20020411200534.A25472@ns.museum.rain.com> <20020412042041.GA80748@peitho.fxp.org> <20020412144054.GB2610@hades.hell.gr> <3CB770F2.3043929E@pythonemproject.com> <20020412170145.E9962@rain.macguire.net>
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Benjamin Krueger wrote:
>
> * rob (rob@pythonemproject.com) [020412 16:44]:
> > Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > >
> > > [Moved to -chat since this is no longer a "question" :)]
> > >
> > > On 2002-04-12 00:20, Bob Bomar wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > FreeBSD pushes the hardware pretty hard as it is. I would bet you
> > > > > a dozen doughnuts that FreeBSD at 850 MHz will outperform Win2k at
> > > > > 1 GHz.
> > > >
> > > > I will actually prove that. My P-166 running 4.4-Release, apache,
> > > > postfix, mysql, and DNS ran faster than my PII-400 running just a
> > > > base Win 98. I mean faster as in, it started up faster, and it ran
> > > > Star Office faster, did i metion that the P-166 was running X?
> > >
> > > That's a highly subjective metric though. My FreeBSD machine feels a
> > > lot more responsive than those Windows XP machines with faster CPUs a
> > > and larger amounts of RAM I've seen friends work on. But how does one
> > > define an objective metric of 'responsiveness'?
> > >
> > > Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
> > > keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
> > >
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> >
> > I do a lot of number crunching, and FreeBSD (and Linux) usability beats
> > Windows NT&2K by a huge factor when running ordinary applications
> > overtop of a simulation. I think it is superior memory management that
> > does it. Windows almost seems like its locked up in these situations,
> > until the sim stops and then things go back to normal. Fortunately, I
> > do not have XP to do that comparison :) Rob.
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to note that this is an excellent example of
> how subjective usability measurements are to the task you're performing, and
> how you've configured and tuned the machine in question. I've worked on
> sluggish and speedy workstations of the linux, freebsd, and win2k variety. In
> all cases a little intelligent tuning and understanding of what my task was
> really doing to the machine usually brought usability to a reasonable, if not
> better, state.
>
> As we step into the performance comparison arena, we see a sign;
> "Here be dragons. Tread on ye foolhardy and rehearse your laments."
>
> --
> Benjamin Krueger
>
> "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
> - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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How do you tune Win2K? Or NT4? Rob.
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