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Date:      Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:33:50 +0100
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?
Message-ID:  <20071222103350.GA2747@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <200712220531.WAA09277@lariat.net>
References:  <200712220531.WAA09277@lariat.net>

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On Fri, 21.12.2007 at 22:31:24 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> As has been reported in some other messages on this list, Linux is currently 
> blowing FreeBSD away. It's taking as much as 20% less time to get through 
> the benchmark, depending on exactly how the random shuffle came out. This is 
> with 4 GB RAM, the GENERIC FreeBSD SMP kernel (using SCHED_ULE), and aufs as 
> the storage schema for Squid.

Apples and Oranges, I know, but if you're building a "simple" reverse
cacheing proxy, have you considered Varnish? Would be very interessting
how it would compare to a) FreeBSD+Squid b) Linux+Squid and c)
Linux+Varnish.

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
-- 
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak, and remove all doubt.



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