Subject: Re: Benchmark NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux
To: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
From: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 10/21/2003 16:20:31
Be sure to see http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability  today, as new benchmarks
were done on 20 Oct 2003.  Scroll down to "New Measurements".

Looks like some serious things are still broken in -CURRENT.

-Mike



On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, David Maxwell wrote:

| On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:01:42PM +0000, Alan Post wrote:
| > In article <20031021084815.A14030@mail.bcpl.net>, Webmaster Jim wrote:
| > >
| > > It is not all bad news; the site says:
| > >
| > > Please note that NetBSD was the only BSD that never crashed or
| > > panicked on me, so it gets favourable treatment for that.
| >
| > Yeah, but don't get too excited:  FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux 2.6 were
| > all unstable versions.  I'll leave the Linux 2.4 flames for other
| > people.  :)
|
| You failed to note that he updated to FreeBSD-current because FreeBSD
| stable crashed on him, and OpenBSD current because the OpenBSD release
| had significant performance issues.