On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Don 'Duck' Harper wrote:
| One of the things which has made FreeBSD better than Linux for big web
| servers was the very fast and stable TCP stack, the MMU, and the fact that
| FreeBSD had a far more mature SMP code than Linux 2.0. Now that 2.2 is
| out, I think this might be changing. I have a FreeBSD friend who wants to
| look into this with me.
No, FreeBSD's SMP is quite new, new as of 3.x I believe (but maybe
it's late 2.x that added it.) Linux has had SMP for quite some time,
and has improved greatly since it's initial inception.
I've got two SMP boxes, one Linux and one FreeBSD. Both work quite
well, but I haven't really put the FreeBSD box through it's paces.
FreeBSD's tcp stack is indeed quite excellent, however - it certainly
makes a much better IRC server than Linux did (of course, the last
time I tried it on each was quite some time ago - things may have
changed.)
...
| Half the people you know are below average.
Sounds clever, but assumes that -
1) there's no bias in the people that you know. I imagine that
most of the people *I* know are above average!
2) it assumes that average means `median', when in most cases it
really means `mean'. If people follow a Gaussian distribution
then the distinction is moot, but I tend to doubt that's the case.
Of course, we don't know what they're below average at :)
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