heh, won;t happen if I can help it ;)
-Trish
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Trish Lynch
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Tommy Hallgren wrote:
>
> > I'm reading http://www-scf.usc.edu/~akhavans/Linux_vs_FreeBSD.pdf and have a
> > couple of questions I hope someone here could answer.
>
> I thought this paper was quite poorly written, in general - for example,
> the author is unable to stop gushing about Linux during the first half of
> the paper (he talks about how standards-compliant it is, the "exemplary
> performance" it achieves, etc) but then seems to switch abruptly
> mid-stream, and comes to the conclusion that neither is better than the
> other.
>
> There are several outright fallacies in his reasoning which invalidate
> some of the conclusions and testing methodologies (such as the getpid()
> thing, the claim (allegedly from a Linux manpage, no less!) that FreeBSD
> copies the entire address space on fork(), the claim that FreeBSD can "run
> fewer copies of the Apache binary" since the binary size is larger, that
> it is unable to run on >2 CPUs), etc.
>
> Basically, it's so poorly done it's not worth worrying about (until it
> shows up on slashdot, sigh)
>
> Kris
>
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