FreeBSD for serious performance?

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <20121209091305.238100 at gmx.com>, 
"Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd at engineer.com> wrote:

>Ronald writes:
>> the last Alpha to be produced was shipped way back in 2004... eight years
>> ago... with a top speed of 1.3 GHz. Â I now have a cheap little media player
>> thingy sitting on my desk, and _each_ of its two cores runs faster than that.
>> In short, Alphas hardly constitute high-end hardware in this day and age.
>
>So clock rate is the only thing that matters in your world?

Yea, pretty much.

As regards to reliability, except for the occasional low-level quirk (which
is usually taken care of for me by the kernel guys) I've never had a processor
fail on me.  Once, about five or six years ago I accidentally burnt up an
Athlon XP (by not having the heatsink properly seated) but that was entirely
my fault.

>I never found a way to boot from different partitions, much less
>different disks with GPT.

Having just been recently convinced to switch over to GPT (from MBR) I do
most sincerly hope that you are either joking or mistaken about this.

>The useless CHS baggage hangs around for decades, but useful
>hardware loses all support 5 nanoseconds after the last machine
>is sold. Other useful hardware waits years hoping to get support.

Yeabut on the bright side, you can't beat the price!


Regards,
rfg