BSD vs Linux Threads

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sat Dec 3 11:47:34 PST 2005



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:chad at shire.net]
>Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 11:15 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux Threads
>
>
>sent offlist so that you can fix it yourself (if indeed I am right,  
>which is not guaranteed :-) )
>
>On Dec 2, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>> Also keep in mind that freebsd filesystems are mounted async by  
>> default,
>> not sync by default like Linux, as a result FreeBSD always does worse
>> in these stupid bakeoffs you read about in the trade rags.
>
>Don't you mean just the opposite -- linux mounts by default asynch  
>and BSD synch so that the BSD is "disadvantaged"?
>

Oops, your right.  Disadvantaged by speed of course - but if your server
crashes, you won't think FreeBSD is disadvantaged.

Ted



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