FreeBSD at "I Fórum Software Livre" in Portugal

[Kris Kennaway]

Joao Barros wrote:
> There will be an open source event on the 12th and 13th of October in
> Lisbon, Portugal, called the "I Fórum Software Livre" [1]
> Among other things FreeBSD will be mentioned (there's one talk about
> FreeBSD at the moment) and I'm thinking of making one about FreeBSD 7
> and it's major improvement: Performance.
> 
> I've already collected some points for reference:
> - Bind performance: http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/bind-resperf.png
> - Jeff Roberson blog and scheduler improvements
> - Kris Kennaway Scalability Update:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/Scalability%20Update.pdf
> - Kris Kennaway MySQL vs Postgres on FreeBSD:
> http://obsecurity.dyndns.org/sysbench-write.png (offline)
> - http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/04/11/postgresql-scaling-on-6-2-and-7-0
> 
> I was hoping to get more information and/or benchmarks FreeBDS CURRENT
> vs FreeBSD 6, FreeBSD vs Linux,etc that I could use to make a showoff
> of FreeBSD :)
> 
> I'm cc'ing Kris to see if he can get his machine online and ask for
> permission to use parts of his documentation.
> 
> [1] http://www.softwarelivre.com.pt/index.php

Unfortunately the machine is somewhere in the middle of the atlantic 
ocean at the moment (I forgot to transfer the website elsewhere before 
shipping).  Well, I have the hard drive with me but don't have a way to 
access it.

Kris