Re: Another Mindcradt case?

Jean Francois Martinez
2001-02-06T23:23:54Z

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