Re: Another Mindcradt case?

Jean Francois Martinez
2001-02-06T22:59:22Z

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:02:01 +0100, Roger Larsson said:

> Hi,
>
> Please note that Moshe is (usually) very pro Linux (read his earlier columns).
> I guess that he had expected Linux 2.4 to really beat FreeBSD - it did not...
>

I was speaking about the reaction of pride Linux developpers had after the
Mindcraft "benchamrks" pointed to design flaws in Linux. Here it is a BSD who
could be beating the pants of Linux

> /RogerL
>
> On Wednesday 07 February 2001 01:25, 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.
> >
> > 1) Compiler issues. Moshe Barr does not tell what distrib ha was using so
> > we don't know what distribution was used and with what
> >

Here should have read "we don't know what compiler was used and with what
compiler flags (like -O2 versus -O3)"

JFM