What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Oct 7 07:02:36 PDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:55:37AM -0400, TM4525 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/6/04 6:47:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> kris at obsecurity.org writes:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Bigelow, Andrea L. wrote:
> > Where's the documentation? I'd like to see this for myself.  
> 
> There is none, because Mr./Ms. TM4525 is making up his/her "facts" to
> suit their assertion.  The last time this claim was made it was
> refuted and TM4525 promised to go away and check 5.3 performance.
> 
> Kris
> ----------------------------------
> 
> Actually, Kris, it wasn't "refuted", you said that the exceptionally poor 
> performance was "expected" until 5.3 was released, and implied that 
> anyone who expected good performance was making a fool of themselves.
> 
> Search google groups for "freebsd 5.2 performance woes" and sort by date 
> to see my test details and subsequent comments by Kris and the other 
> FreeBSD Spin Doctors.
> 
> My tests are very controlled, and my "assertion" is a result of exceptionally
> poor performance in the test. And no-one "refuted" my results. More 
> like jockeying to save face.
> 
> Nor did I "promise to go away". I promised to test 5.3 and post 
> the results.

We're waiting..5.3 is in beta and ready for your tests.  Other
benchmarks show very good results compared to 4.x.

Kris
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