From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eng2.sequent.com (eng2.sequent.com [138.95.200.91]) by gateway.sequent.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06068 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eng2.sequent.com (8.10.0.Beta10/8.8.5/token.aware-1.2) with ESMTP id f16Nnsu20115 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:49:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102062349.f16Nnsu20115@eng2.sequent.com> Reply-To: Gerrit Huizenga From: Gerrit Huizenga Subject: Re: Another Mindcradt case? In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:36:45 PST. <3A808A8D.A83784F5@eventdriven.org> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:49:54 -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: It sure seems like this was a roughly fair comparison by friendlies, as opposed to a de fecto, closed-source, self-perpetuating propoganda machine out to steam roll possible competition. Seems like it should be responded to in the spirit of open source: COOL! So what was broken in Linux/BSD and what technology did BSD/Linux use to fix it that we can share? End result could be to make them both better than any closed, proprietary, over-large corporate product offering. And, keep in mind that comparisons usually indicate that there are some flaws - even if the flaw is that the user's weren't able to set up a system that worked for them. The key is to find and fix the flaws as they are exposed. Just my $0.03. gerrit > Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:27:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig said: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:25:10PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > > > Moshe Barr is claiming on Byte that sendmail and mysql are 30% > faster on > > > > FreeBSD than Linux 2.4. Now given that I don't think that mysql is > spending > > > > 30% of its time in kernel mode there are not many ways FreeBSD can > be 30% > > > > faster. > > > > > > As he has not even documented all the parameters: Ignore him. > > > > > > > The fact he doesn't give all parms doesn't mean Linux could not have a > > performance problem. And one thing is sure we have a propaganda > problem > > since the BSD people will mention this for ten years. So better to solve > both > > problems than ignoring them. > > > > JF Martinez > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > > the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > > see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/ > > In all due fairness the propaganda out there is overwhelmingly in favor of > Linux. > Not to mention that its user base is close to 10x that of *BSD. > > -Kip -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/