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#! rnews 2269 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!news From: Joe <joe@foundit.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 07:30:29 -0700 Organization: Retired Lines: 41 Message-ID: <32567105.4487EB71@foundit.com> References: <3246f8e0.1466924@news.telepac.pt> <324924E5.49B6@usoft.nl> <324AC49E.1CD3@pressconnect.com> <52pfff$d93@uriah.heep.sax.de> <52qhfj$o6a@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <m2n2y4f17u.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <32560997.79E1@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wanker.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) Ken Bigelow wrote: > Forget NT for high volume. We've been trying it at work and it *stinks!= * > But then, what do you expect when its own monitoring software shows tha= t > it uses 5% of CPU time just to maintain a static GUI presentation, and > just moving the mouse pointer across a set of three open windows is > enough to kick it over 50% briefly? This is NT 4.0 installed from CD. > = > The other NT server we have in place can be freshly reset on Friday, an= d > by Monday morning it's running like a broken wheel -- sslllooowww. At > the same time, we've got a FreeBSD machine up and running as our mail > server as well as running apache. No crashes and it's been ticking alon= g > nicely since we reset it during a power problem in our building last > May. > = > We actually tried Linux first: both Slackware and Caldera. We had some > assorted problems with both in our situation, and found that FreeBSD > suited us much better. > = > But go ahead and test Linux and FreeBSD; they are at least reasonable i= n > this kind of context. Also take a look through the thread "Unix too > slow..." in this NG for some comments from others about NT versus Unix > clones. Some hard performance numbers would go a long way in the "Unix too slow =2E.." thread. I'm sure alot of people would be interested. just a thought, Joe -- = =86%