Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: stan@craigslist.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: advocacy/21238: poor performance; missed opportunities Message-ID: <20000913001649.93F3137B42C@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 21238 >Category: advocacy >Synopsis: poor performance; missed opportunities >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-advocacy >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 12 17:20:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Stan Osborne >Release: 4.0 >Organization: Craigslist >Environment: no longer available >Description: After an outside consultant advocated we "upgrade" from Linux to FreeBSD our sysadmin staff invested much time and effort into evaluating FreeBSD. A new production server was built using FreeBSD 4.0 and comparted with Linux, all on the same hardware. The result was a comparison of the two OSs on the same hardware running the exact same application tests. This type of testing is as fair as it gets. The reasons for staying with Linux follow. o) Linux (2.2.16 kernel) benchmarked far better in terms of our search code (3x faster on the same box), and slightly better for Apache performance. o) The final straw was that the GDBM libraries for FreeBSD were very slow. If performance of these two important tests was close to the same, we would have switched to FreeBSD. Instead, for now the idea of switching to FreeBSD has been dropped and not likley to be re-examined anytime soon. Until fairly unsophisticated applications perform as well on FreeBSD, these rare opportunities to convert a predominately Linux shop to FreeBSD are a waste of time. >How-To-Repeat: Properly benchmark GDBM and Apache based applications using the same hardware. Compare results between FreeBSD and Linux. >Fix: Regretably the fix is to use Linux. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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