Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:38:01 +0200 From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com> To: dwilde1@ibm.net, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPECweb96 challenge Message-ID: <19980417123801.A9264@engelschall.com> In-Reply-To: <35363396.CF5289F3@partsnow.com>; from Don Wilde on Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 09:36:38AM -0700 References: <35363396.CF5289F3@partsnow.com>
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On Thu, Apr 16, 1998, Don Wilde wrote:
> > Novell Web Server Pushes Envelope
> >
> > Novell, Inc. reached a SPECweb96 benchmark of 1639 running
> > intraNetWare 4.11 on a single processor Compaq ProLiant 3000.
>
> I saw this in Internet Alert, an e-mail newsletter. Since we know FreeBSD
> excells as a webserver under load, this is our opportunity to set up to shoot
> some crows out of the sky. I don't personally like ProLiant servers, but let's
> see if we can approximate their hardware and tune our software -- out of the
> box, no source-code tweaks -- to dominate this SPEC. Have you looked at it?
>
> 1) Obtain SPECweb96 test guidelines
> 2) Obtain equivalent test platform hardware
> 3) Configure FreeBSD for max serving performance
> 4) Configure Apache for max serving performance
> 5) Run test
> 6) Promote results heavily!!!!!
>
> My best hardware is a PPro180 with 64MB, so I don't have a new enough machine,
> but I think this is exactly the kind of thing we FreeBSD advocates need to do to
> promote FreeBSD -- and get the IW's and NWW's and Byte's to acknowledge us. If
> we've got TBDOSITW, let's _prove_ it.
There is only one point you missed: the SPECweb96 benchmark costs $800 :-(
Ralf S. Engelschall
rse@engelschall.com
www.engelschall.com
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