Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA22317 for pups-liszt; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:02:40 +1100 (EST) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA22313 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:02:31 +1100 (EST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 12DoZ6-000JNg-00; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:02:24 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA48336; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:02:23 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:02:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Greg Lehey cc: "Joerg B. Micheel" , "Steven M. Schultz" , pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 In-Reply-To: <20000127153820.T53307@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Message too convoluted to tell who actually wrote this....but i believe Greg wrote the second group of lines.... >> That would make quite an interesting test. How much does >> ftp.cdrom.com gain by running FreeBSD instead of Solaris ? > >Good question. My guess is that Solaris 2 just couldn't handle that >many connections, but it compete reasonably well with fewer >connections (say 1000). I'll copy the FreeBSD chat people and see >what they think. Interestingly, i noticed recently that the response time on usa.net seemed much slower. It appears consistently so, either by ppp connection or by network/T1 line. A few months ago, netcraft showed that they were running FreeBSD. Guess what they are running now? Yup... SOlaris. I dropped them a line saying i noticed the speed difference. -=> jm <=- "I've done questionable things, also extraordinary things.... Revel in your time!"