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gull
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response 5 of 7:
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Jul 18 16:57 UTC 2008 |
Re resp:4: If FreeBSD does release them, I'd really like to know where
to find them, because that'd be extremely useful to me. It's possible I
missed them. They're not on the website's security advisories page, though.
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arthurp
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response 6 of 7:
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Jan 7 06:31 UTC 2009 |
I inherited this freebsd mail server. It seemed really slow so I got
and ran iozone. It was able to produce something like 600 k bytes/ sec
sustained IO. The same hardware in the adjacent rack slot running linux
and iozone was able to sustain about 55 M bytes/ sec. So I migrated the
server functions and loaded linux to the freebsd hardware. It was then
able to match the first linux system in performance.
To me a factor of 100 performance is a pretty important bug. This
server was barely able to handle 5 simultaneous deliveries under qmail.
Now it handles 50 simultaneous deliveries and acts like it is doing
zero. Maybe freebsd should back off a notch on the security thing until
they get the basics working.
Other than things like that security is very important. But then I'm
not a fair judge on that topic. ;)
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cross
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response 7 of 7:
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Jan 7 13:19 UTC 2009 |
FreeBSD aren't the security gestapo, that's OpenBSD.
My guess is that your performance problems were related to filesystem
configuration. Most places see similar performance between FreeBSD or
Linux, with the former often outperforming the latter.
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