Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-24 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: snip If you find your wants and needs overlap with those of the developers, we ask you to help support the project. If you don't care about OpenBSD, you probably aren't reading this (well, we know a few people

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-24 Thread Buzzer
pO DANNYM RADIOPEREHWATA OT 23-Sep-2009 21:21, Tom Smith BYL ZAME^EN W \FIRE, NA ^ASTOTE misc, S TAKOJ INFORMACIEJ: OpenBSD is created by the developers for the developers and any use that the rest of us get from the OS is a nice side effect of their generosity... That's nonsense. You

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-23 Thread Aioanei Rares
Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-23 Thread armpit
neal hogan wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:04:07AM +0200, jean-francois wrote: Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 C 08:56 +1000, armpit a C)crit : Marco Peereboom wrote: [...] OpenBSD is built by the developers for the developers. [...] To me it sound like OpenBSD is built by the developpers for

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-23 Thread Tom Smith
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM, armpit mailto...@iprimus.com.au wrote: OpenBSD is created by the developers for the developers and any use that the rest of us get from the OS is a nice side effect of their generosity... That's nonsense. You can't beg for donations and CD sales, time and

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-23 Thread neal hogan
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:21:07PM -0400, Tom Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM, armpit mailto...@iprimus.com.au wrote: OpenBSD is created by the developers for the developers and any use that the rest of us get from the OS is a nice side effect of their generosity...

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-23 Thread Nick Holland
Tom Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM, armpit mailto...@iprimus.com.au wrote: OpenBSD is created by the developers for the developers and any use that the rest of us get from the OS is a nice side effect of their generosity... That's nonsense. You can't beg for donations and

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-22 Thread jean-francois
Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 C 08:56 +1000, armpit a C)crit : Marco Peereboom wrote: [...] OpenBSD is built by the developers for the developers. [...] To me it sound like OpenBSD is built by the developpers for the developpers, and also the rest of the world who need it for whatever purpose one

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-22 Thread neal hogan
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:04:07AM +0200, jean-francois wrote: Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 C 08:56 +1000, armpit a C)crit : Marco Peereboom wrote: [...] OpenBSD is built by the developers for the developers. [...] To me it sound like OpenBSD is built by the developpers for the

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:59:45PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:55PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I think your problem can be traced to the different default voices. I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the same config, like I

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:33:07PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:59:45PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:55PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I think your problem can be traced to the different default voices. I've test timidity

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread 4625
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:59:43PM +1200, Paul M wrote: I like fluidsynth. Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it? Are you serious? Is it looks like joke? fluidsynth -ni Unison.sf2 beethoven_-_5th_simphony.mid fluidsynth: warning: Ignoring sample *KPianoB5: can't use ROM

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread 4625
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: I think your problem can be traced to the different default voices. I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the same config, like I have one in FreeBSD, on the same

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:13:56PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 01:59:43PM +1200, Paul M wrote: I like fluidsynth. Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it? Are you serious? Is it looks like joke? fluidsynth -ni Unison.sf2 beethoven_-_5th_simphony.mid

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread bofh
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: oh, wait. I found a dmesg: PR 6220. PII @ 349 MHz w/ s...@isapnp ok, now I can believe you may have a performance issue. OK, that beats what I saw at work today. Someone sent me an email with a subject that said

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Bryan Irvine
But I think this - 350Mhz general use cpu turned midi player may actually beat me out for stupidity of the day. He probably believes Microsoft and runs XP on a 486 too. You can get close though! http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm ;-) -B

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-18 Thread Buzzer
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:30:25PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: fluidsynth -ni Unison.sf2 beethoven_-_5th_simphony.mid fluidsynth: warning: Ignoring sample *KPianoB5: can't use ROM samples fluidsynth: error: Couldn't set libsndio audio parameters as desired Failed to create the audio driver

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Artur Grabowski
- Tethys tet...@gmail.com writes: And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. Sigh. Yes? So? Not everyone has to have an ambition to take over the world. The developers do it as a hobby, for fun. Which ties into the OP. The answer to his question is why?. //art

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. Sigh. Yes? So? Not everyone has to have an ambition to take over the world. The developers do it as a hobby, for fun. Which ties into the OP. The answer to his question is why?. No kidding. All I ever wanted was a hobby. If

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Cian Brennan
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:14:46PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. Wow I'm glad that I'm not part of that industry!

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:44:23AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. Wow I'm glad that I'm not part of that industry! Nah, our end-users are just different beasts. They walk upright. -Otto

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 20:59 +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: OpenBSD's a wonderful OS, but it's lack of easy upgradability is a *disadvantage, not something to be proud of. And yes, there are good Our Institute moved away from Linux servers always everwhere, just *because* of updates are unreliable.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:43:07AM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer said that Our Institute moved away from Linux servers always everwhere, just *because* of updates are unreliable. Very often we did an apt-get update or an yum bla, reboot, machine dead or fucked up otherwise. everyone is

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that sounds like you haven't actually worked in the computer industry in a while. Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. And things like easy updates, specialisation of

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that sounds like you haven't actually worked in the computer industry in a while. Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. And

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
Ignore my double posting, my mistake. -- Christiano Farina HAESBAERT Do NOT send me html mail.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Janne Johansson
Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: Ignore my double posting, my mistake. Dont worry, it adds value to the intarwebs.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread 4625
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I think your problem can be traced to the different default voices. I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the same config, like I have one in FreeBSD, on the same PC. I wonder if FreeBSD's

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Fred Crowson
On 9/15/09, 4625 4625...@gmail.com 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 desktop or mail

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:35:58PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I think your problem can be traced to the different default voices. I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the same config, like I have one in

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread 4625
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:36:08PM +0100, Fred Crowson 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

2009-09-17 Thread 4625
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:08:55PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I think your problem can be traced to the different default voices. I've test timidity with a different sound fonts and with the same config, like I have one in FreeBSD, on the same PC. I wonder if

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/09/2009, at 11:59 AM, 4625 wrote: I like fluidsynth. Well, I got it. Could you explain me how do you ran it? Are you serious? the way the manual says to. What make you think that I did not saw the manual? You should probably stop posting about now, you're starting to make

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Eric Furman
Oh, these arguments are rich! They never cease to crack me up. So and so crypto cipher is weak...blah blah blah... Show me the cluster of supercomputers than can break them in any kind of meaningful time frame and I *might* start to worry. Oh wait, I forgot about those super secret NSA ones...

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Milan Bartoš
I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true, but e.g. vnconfig uses quite weak crypto mechanism. Will you break mine? Sorry, I won't :-) I just wanted to know what's true on that (read thread some time back where this is discussed).

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Milan Bartoš
I still hear people telling that OpenBSD is secure. It's of course true, but e.g. vnconfig uses quite weak crypto mechanism. Will you break mine? I just wanted to know what's true on that (read thread some time back where this is discussed). Claiming its weak seems like a bad way to get

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? Why optimize something if it isn't needed ? if you show me something that clearly won't solve a problem due to it's performance, it's time to optimize otherwise it's just wasting time. Uhh but this could be faster yeah, and gnu ls could

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:36:49AM -0300, Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: | Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? Misquoting does not help your case. *PREMATURE* optimization is the root of all evil. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd --

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:27AM +, Jacob Meuser said that 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
2009/9/16 Paul de Weerd we...@weirdnet.nl: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:36:49AM -0300, Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: | Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? Misquoting does not help your case. *PREMATURE* optimization is the root of all evil. Ooops my mistake,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* Cian Brennan cian.bren...@redbrick.dcu.ie [2009-09-15 23:32]: OpenBSD sucks at this one. The fact that base isn't packaged is a *huge* pain if you run lots of it. As is the short support timeline. bullshit. i run way over a hundred openbsd machines. upgrades take me less than 5 minutes.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread - Tethys
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. so don't fucking do it, use releases and packages. So how does one remedy CVE-2009-0696 like

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Henning Brauer wrote: Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. so don't fucking do it, use releases and packages. *OR* learn how to use environment

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Ross Cameron
On 15/09/2009, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet traffic. can handle at least twice that. enough of a benchmark? Any chance you could post the spec. of said machine? I'd especially be interested in

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Henning Brauer
* - Tethys tet...@gmail.com [2009-09-16 17:37]: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Building from source is light years more difficult than 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade, or 'yum upgrade' or the like. so don't fucking do it, use releases

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread - Tethys
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. Sigh. Tet -- bIt seems

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Beck
boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the resources and time to devote racks of

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Bender
If there genuinely is something as easy as yum update bind, then great. But if so, it doesn't seem to be documented, and this is the reason I haven't rolled out more OpenBSD boxen in the real world. I run OpenBSD on my own machines. But I'm with Cian here. Keeping up to date really is its

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ross Cameron wrote: On 15/09/2009, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet traffic. can handle at least twice that. enough of a benchmark? Any chance you could post the spec. of said machine? I'd especially be

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is why OpenBSD will

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is why OpenBSD will

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Marco Peereboom escribis: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Tom Smith
OP Here. Wow. Did not mean to start this sort of discussion. I only wanted some suggestions on how to deal with critics of OpenBSD's performance that I run into on occasion who cite that old, outdated, silly article. Anyway, thanks for all the performance feedback. As to the others, in this

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:59:43 -0700 (PDT) 4625 4625...@gmail.com wrote: From: 4625 4625...@gmail.com To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-m...@openbsd.org Organization: Buzzer X-Mailer: 4158xHC1dZubQ

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Cian Brennan
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you know how to use patch files and diff properly I'm sure it is absolutely wonderful, but it also copes badly with files that have not changed in any

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:22:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you know how to use patch files and diff properly I'm sure it is absolutely

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: [snipzorz] It is exactly your attitude that has ruined the computer industry. You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:30:47PM +0300, Jussi Peltola wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:22:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you know how to

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Beck
I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a professional; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as a series of buttons to push, you get button-pushing monkeys, not

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:55:44PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a professional; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:01:49 + Jacob Meuser 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
Marco Peereboom escribis: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Christiano Farina Haesbaert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that sounds like you haven't actually worked in the computer industry in a while. Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. And

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:54:06PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:27AM +, Jacob Meuser said that 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:47:08 +0100 - Tethys wrote: And that attitude is why OpenBSD will never be more than a hobby OS. The same words I can say about Linux. -- /4625

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:20:05 -0400 Tom Smith wrote: Anyway, thanks for all the performance feedback. As to the others, in this thread, who find using or managing OpenBSD difficult, I'd say ...make OS for newbies, and only newbies will want to use this OS. -- /4625

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:36:49 -0300 Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: Remember Optimization is the root of all evil from Knuth ? To act contrary to common sense would be ignore optimization. Look on MS Windows - each new version require more resources and constrain to buy new hardware every 2-3

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:39:31 +0200 Bret S. Lambert wrote: 1) In X on OpenBSD 4.5 mouse cursor may freeze sometimes. On FreeBSD 4.11 (on the same PC) - never. Doesn't happen for me... Did you ever report this? with information to reproduce it? I do not think so. It is not a bug,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Raymond Lillard
Bob Beck wrote: boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the resources

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:01:02PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:01:49 + Jacob Meuser 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

2009-09-16 Thread Maurice Janssen
Bob Beck wrote: Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we do that? We simply do not have the resources and time to devote racks of machines, developer time, and internet

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Dag Richards
I have been actively maintaining a firewall cluster and a VPN cluster of BSD system since 3.5. I have upgraded each system from a factory boot cd every 6 - 8 months. I have never had any problems due the to upgrade not once. I run a 4000 PC network in a 24x7 Health Care environment. There is

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
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 so many people cite is indeed

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:14:13PM -0700, 4625 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread armpit
Marco Peereboom wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:47:08PM +0100, - Tethys wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: Sounds like building from source is necessary to me. boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. And that attitude is

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Bret S. Lambert wrote: I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a professional; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as a series of buttons to

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Beck
But come on Bret, that's what the industry WANTS.. you can PAY monkeys less! Push Butan ...receive bacon lube Keep it Sizzlin! (you can't hear it but I'm doing the little techno pelvic dance right now..)

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread 4625
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I wonder if FreeBSD's patch-playmidi would make any difference. It is not port or patch problem, but perfomance (on my opinion). well, that patch sure looks like it's correcting an inopportune typo. but I'm not a timidity

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Bob Beck b...@ualberta.ca wrote: boo hoo. run one machine somewhere and make release. done. Once you have a built release you can run upgrades everywhere from that release tarball. man release to figure out how to do that. Now you may ask, why don't we

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Carson Harding
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:15:36PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: But come on Bret, that's what the industry WANTS.. you can PAY monkeys less! Push Butan ...receive bacon lube Keep it Sizzlin! (you can't hear it but I'm doing the little techno pelvic dance right now..) And,

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:57:43PM -0700, 4625 wrote: What if I'm unable make better report? http://www.openbsd.org/report.html

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:39:30PM -0700, 4625 wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:55:57PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: I wonder if FreeBSD's patch-playmidi would make any difference. It is not port or patch problem, but perfomance (on my opinion). well, that patch sure looks like it's

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:15:27AM +0200, 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Mic J
So since benchmarking is out, how do we then find out where potential problems are. What does OpenBSD developers do, since surely they don't benchmark :) Maybe we should profile instead ? I'm not very experienced with webservers, but here how i would approach it. 1. i have a problem, i think

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread ttw+bsd
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.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Nick Holland
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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Bob Beck
Practically speaking, the people who need the performance at the edge of what OpenBSD can deliver usually are too busy to argue benchmarks. Precisely.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-09-15 13:52]: 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:43:26AM +0200, Mic J wrote: So since benchmarking is out, how do we then find out where potential problems are. What does OpenBSD developers do, since surely they don't benchmark :) Maybe we should profile instead ? I'm not very experienced with webservers, but

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Henning Brauer wrote: * Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-09-15 13:52]: 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net [2009-09-15 16:21]: Henning Brauer wrote: * Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-09-15 13:52]: 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

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Stefan Wollny
-Urspr|ngliche Nachricht- Von: Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net Gesendet: 15.09.09 16:20:09 An: misc misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance Henning Brauer wrote: * Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-09-15 13:52]: Yep. Most performance-oriented thing

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
performance issue. How do others defend OpenBSD in these conversations? I I don't defend. Just let everyone use what they want.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
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. I don't know how

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Florian Fuessl
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]: [...] i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s

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