Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:38:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: nicole@nmhtech.com, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Interesting user of FreeBSD Message-ID: <199904052038.PAA11647@free.pcs> In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-advocacy/XFMail.990405122330.nicole@nmhtech.com>
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In article <local.mail.freebsd-advocacy/XFMail.990405122330.nicole@nmhtech.com> you write: > > > I found an interesting reference that I want to look deeper into but at >http://bakeoff.ircache.net/bakeoff-01/ ( A Caching Server bakeoff) > They have a nice link at the bottom for FreeBSD. > > Now what is most suprizing to me is at >http://bakeoff.ircache.net/bakeoff-01/polyteam-pics/ (warning LARGE) >3rd picture up from the bottom has a caption that reads "Glenn and Alex loading >FreeBSD on the Novell cluster." Hah. Yes, both CAIDA and NLANR are using FreeBSD extensively, it's their platform of choice for developing polygraph (the web proxy benchmark). You might know them better as developers of the Squid proxy. The bakeoff used approximately 80 machines as the "test harness" for various vendor's proxies, and all 80 machines were running FreeBSD. > So, Novell is using FreeBSD for their Caching Solution....?? No - "Novell powered by Dell" is a custom Novell system (which appears to beat everything else at this particular bakeoff). But then again, the solution is not a general purpose OS, (as far as I can tell), so that's to be expected. Peregrine, on the other hand, _is_ running on a 3.1 box (with my tweaks) and performs almost on a par with the Novell solution on the same hardware. Of course, we're running into a CPU bottleneck, and they're running into a network bottleneck, so it's not exactly a fair comparison. I was talking to the Polyteam at the conference, and what they would primarily like is for my changes to be folded into FBSD (which I should submit for review sometime soon). Also, they are still using 2.2.8 instead of 3.1, with one of the primary reasons being that the two-floppy boot disk is a pain in the butt. What was also somewhat humorous was that Glenn clipped the UserFriendly strip (the one that says "I'm not a devil, I'm a daemon!") and put it up on the notice board at the conference. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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