Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:19:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: sas@schell.de (Sascha Schumann) Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real performance comparisons (was: FreeBSD 3.1 SMP outperforms SuSE 6.0 SMP by factor 2.3 !!!) Message-ID: <199903180119.SAA24131@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990317173718.A2510@schell.de> from "Sascha Schumann" at Mar 17, 99 05:37:18 pm
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> This only demonstrates clearly that he lacks basic Linux knowledge. No Linux > distribution ships with a SMP ready kernel. As a matter of fact, I would not > make a benchmark publically available, if I just managed to install a system. Actually, this would be the *only* way I'd make a benchmark available that purported to compare two systems. I would *only* publish benchmarks between tuned systems if it were the same system, with the only difference being the tuning, not the system. The only thing tuned benchmarks are good for is determining the relative fitness of a machine for a particular purpose, out of the box, relative to if you hired an expensive consultant to do the tuning for you. For example, I think task-specific tunings for things like Walnut Creek CDROM grade FTP server should be "packages" that you can install, which deinstall the "general purpose" package (or the "web server purpose" package, etc.) at install time. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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