ttw+...@cobbled.net wrote: > On 14.09-20:43, Nick Holland wrote: >> [ ... ] >> Speed matters. Almost as much as some things, and nowhere near as >> much as others. > > beautifully specific and vague, i'd challenge anyone to sum up > benchmarking better. if that's not a quote, it is now; i'm writing > it down and sticking it to my wall.
Original material, as far as I know. :) >> [ ... ] >> Practically speaking, the people who need the performance at the >> edge of what OpenBSD can deliver usually are too busy to argue >> benchmarks. > > careful, that could be seen as an admission > ;-) Yep. Most performance-oriented thing I've done with OpenBSD was firewalling a 45Mbps T3 line. It did tax the machine a little bit, but the primary firewall was a Celeron 600, about five years old at the time it was put into service (failover was a PIII-750, which showed a lot lower load, I think it was more the cache than the MHz). Lame. :) Nick.
