On Wednesday 05 April 2006 06:25, Miles Keaton wrote: > When would you NOT use OpenBSD?
When you run applications that *REALLY* needs SMP, not that there are a lot of those. Or when your application simply do not run on OpenBSD for some reason. > When would you choose one of the other *nix over OpenBSD? When they're more suitable for the task. Not that it has ever been the case for me. > Is OpenBSD appropriate for a busy webserver or super-loaded database > server? Webserver yes. "Super-loaded" MySql server? Dunno, depends on how much MySql sucks these days. > I've seen old "O.S. shootouts" benchmarks comparing O.S.'s and often > showing Linux or FreeBSD excelling at webserving or > database-performance, but I don't know if that's just old data or the > benchmarkers didn't have OpenBSD tweaked right. Benchmarks are like assholes, everyone has one but you're better off only minding your own. ---- Lars Hansson
