Matt Dillon wrote:
| Out of the box, FreeBSD (and Linux) work just fine for virtually
| anything you need to do, with very few exceptions. If you need to
| run a huge multi-gigabyte database, or you need to run an EFNET IRC
| server, or a USENET relay, or a SPAM mailer, then you have a bit of
| tuning work to do. Otherwise it will just work. We tune our default
| configurations for what most people need. We don't tune them to run
| stupid benchmarks.
This is indeed the case. I've been running FreeBSD releases
from the CD subscription service since 2.2.6 on my own network
and all my customer networks. I do build a new kernel each time
so that I can drop all the drivers that aren't needed (as that
halves the kernel size), but that takes only a few minutes per
release and is a no-brainer. And then those boxes just run and
FreeBSD just works and the performance for those real world
operations is excellent -- reliability is 100% and speed is such
that users feel that they're getting instant responses. That's
the only kind of benchmark that matters.
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