Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Kevin Wooten" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x has finally made it! | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:49:56 -0700 |
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Why is he using FreeBSD 4.3? Version 4.4 has been out for quite a while....that seems like quite an oversight, unless 4.3 performs better than 4.4, which I doubt.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kai Henningsen" <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Re: 2.4.x has finally made it!
> matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de (Matthias Andree) wrote on 13.11.01 in <20011113171836.A14967@emma1.emma.line.org>: > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Alastair Stevens wrote: > > > > > For those who haven't seen it yet, Moshe Bar at BYTE.com has revisited his > > > Linux 2.4 vs FreeBSD benchmarks, using 2.4.12 in this case: > > > > > > http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html > > > > Wow. That person is knowledgeable... NOT. Turning off fsync() for mail > > is just as good as piping it to /dev/null. See RFC-1123. > > I rather think a non-fsync() system has a very much higher rate of > successful mail deliveries than a /dev/null one, and only slightly (if at > all) lower than a fsync() one. > > Now, that slight difference *can* be rather important if you're a major > mail hub - or it can be below the noise level in an end user system. In > either case, however, *nobody* will accept /dev/null as an equivalent > substitute. > > Well, nobody but you. > > MfG Kai > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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