Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jordi Espasa Clofent jordi.esp...@opengea.org [2009-09-15 17:12]: If I may ask here. One thing that would be nice for the records is to get a little bit more details on your setup doing that if you have no problem providing it obviously. Specially the PF configuration tie to this bgp

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Florian Fuessl f...@degnet.de [2009-09-15 17:31]: Hi Henning, -Original Message- From: owner-m...@[...] on Behalf Of Henning Brauer Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:39 PM Subject: Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance * Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-09-15 13:52

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that Hah. That's why he did not update his site since 2003. Do you realy think that OpenBSD 3.4 and 4.6 are the same? nobody is arguing 3.4 and 4.6 is the same. or that that particular benchmark has any more than historic value..

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
If I may ask here. One thing that would be nice for the records is to get a little bit more details on your setup doing that if you have no problem providing it obviously. Specially the PF configuration tie to this bgp router as well may well be very educating to many. it doesn't run pf.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net [2009-09-15 19:14]: If I may ask here. One thing that would be nice for the records is to get a little bit more details on your setup doing that if you have no problem providing it obviously. Specially the PF configuration tie to this bgp router as

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost time due to gratuitous API changes? lost time tuning setups? lost time searching on google instead of reading manuals? -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:28:33PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that Hah. That's why he did not update his site since 2003. Do you realy think that OpenBSD 3.4 and 4.6 are the same? nobody is arguing 3.4 and 4.6 is the

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost time due to gratuitous API changes? lost time tuning setups? lost time searching on google instead of reading manuals? Lost time drinking yourself

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:41:01PM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that the devs are sitting around smug saying nothing until someone comes up with this theme again and then they send something like: i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
this thread is fucking stupid. consider that the majority of machines are horribly underutilized, even in large organizations where some of the machines are under heavy load. the reason that everyone here is so dismissive of benchmarks is that they do not translate to real world results.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Beck
From: OpenBSD general usage list misc@openbsd.org this thread is fucking stupid. I didn't need the second part... How about just saying something when the thread is NOT stupid.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread 4625
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:39:46 -0400 Tom Smith wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out that the old article

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Cian Brennan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:39:23PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: this thread is fucking stupid. consider that the majority of machines are horribly underutilized, even in large organizations where some of the machines are under heavy load. the reason that everyone here is so dismissive

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Milan Bartoš
I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true, but e.g. vnconfig uses quite weak crypto mechanism. I preffer to say OpenBSD is bugfree. Otherwise, it's still the best OS ever. -- merlyn

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Milan BartoE!merlyn...@gmail.com wrote: I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true, but e.g. vnconfig uses quite weak crypto mechanism. I preffer to say

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Beck
Well, I've heard that it needs to be mauve,because that has more RAM, otherwise it's a fabulous OS. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Milan BartoE! merlyn...@gmail.com wrote: I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance I still hear people telling that

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Milan Bartoš
old 64-bit blowfish? 2009/9/16 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Milan BartoE!merlyn...@gmail.com wrote: I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Ted Unangst
First, it uses 128-bits, and second, the practical attacks against blowfish are what exactly? Third, if you care, use softraid. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Milan BartoE!merlyn...@gmail.com wrote: old 64-bit blowfish? 2009/9/16 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Milan Bartoš
First, it uses 128-bits Thank You for telling, I'm much stiller now. Third, if you care, use softraid. Already reading man page, thanks :-) 2009/9/16 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com: First, it uses 128-bits, and second, the practical attacks against blowfish are what exactly? Third, if

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Aaron Glenn
- is it easy to upgrade the machines? Again. OpenBSD really sucks at this one. Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. And you've got to track updates for ports yourself, making those even more difficult to

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:59:43PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:39:46 -0400 Tom Smith wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:02:16PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:41:01PM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that the devs are sitting around smug saying nothing until someone comes up with this theme again and then they send something like: i have a bgp

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:28:33PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that Hah. That's why he did not update his site since 2003. Do you realy think that OpenBSD 3.4 and 4.6 are the same? nobody is arguing 3.4 and 4.6 is the

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:06:46 +0100 Owain Ainsworth wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or desktop or mail server, etc and point out that

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser said that so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost time due to gratuitous API changes? lost time tuning setups? lost time searching on google instead of reading manuals? i am afraid my world

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com [2009-09-15 18:16:47]: First, it uses 128-bits, and second, the practical attacks against blowfish are what exactly? _Only_ 128 bits? It clearly needs more. More bits man, more bits! It's not about the number of bits. -- Travers Buda Third, if you

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread neal hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:04:18PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Milan BartoE!merlyn...@gmail.com wrote: I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:09:32AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser said that so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost time due to gratuitous API changes? lost time tuning setups? lost time

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:59:43PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:39:46 -0400 Tom Smith wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine firewall or

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Aaron Mason
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Claudio Jeker cje...@diehard.n-r-g.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:28:33PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: the devs are sitting around smug saying nothing until someone comes up with this theme again and then they send something like: i have a bgp

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:03:06PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:06:46 +0100 Owain Ainsworth wrote: But, I'd like to have hard technicaly data to demonstrate that while Linux and FreeBSD may scale to a gazillion CPUs and PetaBytes of Memory that OpenBSD makes a fine

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:43:34 +1000, Aaron Mason wrote: I'm all for just shelving this argument - nobody's going to agree. I must disagree with that conclusion... I do agree with the shelving. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 14 September 2009 13:39:46 Tom Smith wrote: Hi Misc, Even though this article: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability was many years ago and performance in OpenBSD had improved greatly since that time, I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance. They

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Lars Nooden
Tom Smith wrote: 3. pf, carp, OpenBGPD pfsync Regards, -Lars

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Jose Quinteiro
I've heard a different version of that one: ...is like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. Saludos, Jose. On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:44:55 -0400, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: Attempting to prove the worth of OpenBSD to folks who are not able to figure things

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread tico
STeve Andre' wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 13:39:46 Tom Smith wrote: Hi Misc, Even though this article: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability was many years ago and performance in OpenBSD had improved greatly since that time, I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
If you think micro benchmarks are worth anything you have a micro understanding of the problem. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0400, Tom Smith wrote: Hi Misc, Even though this article: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability was many years ago and performance in OpenBSD had improved greatly

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Steve Shockley
On 9/14/2009 2:53 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: If you think micro benchmarks are worth anything you have a micro understanding of the problem. You shouldn't make generalizations like that. What if his primary workload is micro benchmarks?

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
Then it is of micro importance. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:46:13PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: On 9/14/2009 2:53 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: If you think micro benchmarks are worth anything you have a micro understanding of the problem. You shouldn't make generalizations like that. What

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0400, Tom Smith wrote: Hi Misc, Even though this article: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability was many years ago and performance in OpenBSD had improved greatly since that time, I still hear people (mostly younger people) complain about OpenBSD performance.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23:58PM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that like to prove. In the end many of fefe's test programs did not actually measure what he assumed they would. and he was open to get patches to remedy those problems. general dislike of any benchmark in the world is also part

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Robert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:15:27 +0200 frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23:58PM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that like to prove. In the end many of fefe's test programs did not actually measure what he assumed they would. and he was open to get patches to

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23:58PM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that like to prove. In the end many of fefe's test programs did not actually measure what he assumed they would. and he was open to get patches to remedy those problems. sarcasmand always showed total

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:43:27AM +0200, Robert wrote: | On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:15:27 +0200 | frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: | | hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23:58PM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that | like to prove. In the end many of fefe's test programs did not | actually

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