Re: Another Mindcradt case?

[Kip Macy <kip@eventdriven.org>]

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
>
>
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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

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