What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
Bigelow, Andrea L.
BigelowA at SEC.GOV
Thu Oct 7 07:05:04 PDT 2004
Can anyone speak to performance improvement if the debug flags are removed?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris at obsecurity.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:04 AM
To: TM4525 at aol.com
Cc: questions at freebsd.org; BigelowA at SEC.GOV
Subject: Re: What version of FBSD does Yahoo run?
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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