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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 00:53:35 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 52 Message-ID: <3235025F.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu> <Pine.GSO.3.95.960909083306.1195F-100000@mercury.kosone.com> <DxHFFo.EHL@interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Chris Mauritz wrote: > > I was using an older version of FreeBSD (2.0R) on the following > system and it easily handled over 400k hit/day as a web server. > > 486 DX4/100 > Buslogic BT-445 VLB SCSI controller > 32mb RAM > 256k cache > 1 2gig Barracuda > 1 1gig Fujitsu (subsequently failed) > 3COM 3C509 ethernet card > > Even during peak usage, top and "vmstat -systat" showed the > machine to be 80-90% idle. > Oh my gosh!!! FreeBSD is light-years beyond that now (almost literally.) I shuddered when we released that, and am very happy that you had successfully used it in a real application. The (now ancient) history of the desperate and rushed effort of getting 2.0 out still gives me (and especially the others who did the herculean effort of release engineering) nightmares. Within 2wks of getting the 4.4Lite code, DG and I had a running kernel with all of the non-included parts minimally rewritten from scratch. We all cooperated very very well at that time (and the FreeBSD kernel developers are still the easiest people that I have worked with in my career.) The version from the 2.0 FreeBSD generation of my buffer cache code is still being used in Lites (at least the last time that I checked.) The current end result (2.2 and on) of that forced migration to the 4.4-Lite code has paid off in the long run though. Additionally, I have had a wonderful time just being able to program and work on things that are fun. Many of the contributors and core team members have gone beyond that and done some of the really hard parts (esp. the release engineering.) Those guys are really the unsung heroes. (They sometimes get an extra that-a-boy on the CDROM cover, but IMO is only a minor thanks considering the effort involved.) Right now, Jordan (at least the last time that I heard :-)), is not only the President, but also the release engineer. That guy is really going all out... So much for my rambling... John