Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:06:26 -0400 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "Dave Leimbach" <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Benchmarks and reactions Message-ID: <000401c0f465$db1c19a0$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <20010613162847.A582@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com>
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Dave, The thing there is that once you start optimizing for speed, you start losing other things... like the historical rock solid stability inherent in FreeBSD. Personally, I'd rather have a molasses slow OS that I could depend on as opposed to something that would fly like an eagle on a DX4-100 machine. There are always going to be trade-offs, no matter what you're designing. It's just a matter of what you want the emphasis to be on your final product, and personally, I'm quite happy with how FreeBSD performs right out of the box, and even better after a few tweaks. True, we should try to make FreeBSD as good as it possibly can be... but do we really need to try to hit a target simply because another OS does? I'd really rather NOT see this turn into a "Bit Monkey see, Bit Monkey do" thing with Linux... --- Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dave Leimbach > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 5:29 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Benchmarks and reactions > > > I think its really important to remember to take the Linux community as an > example of how *not* to handle benchmarks showing your OS of choice has > lesser performance than you thought. > > If we react calmly and try to reproduce the statistics or some related > benchmarking we may actually find there are bugs in our code or even a > place where optimization may be necessary. > > I am just curious as to why the standard generic FreeBSD distribution does > not come with higher performance defaults. Certainly soft-updates are a > plus in general. Why not use them by default? > > Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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