Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-08 Thread Gary Jennejohn
"Murray Stokely" writes: > > I'm working on updating our advocacy material used on the website, in > > the Handbook, and now in a set of generic slides that can be used or > > adapted for presentations. > > > > If you have ideas about cool new functionality that we should do a > > better job of t

Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread Nicolas Bérard Nault
Correct me if I'm wrong but those servers have to run in linux emulation ? If I'm right, that could explain why it can be slower sometimes. Also, do your servers use STABLE or CURRENT ? Steven Hartland said: > Possibly of interest for you then, we run around 100 machines > providing public and cla

Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 02:35 pm, Murray Stokely wrote: > I'm working on updating our advocacy material used on the website, in > the Handbook, and now in a set of generic slides that can be used or > adapted for presentations. > > If you have ideas about cool new functionality that we should

Re: Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread Steven Hartland
Possibly of interest for you then, we run around 100 machines providing public and clan based game servers mainly on FreeBSD. A few months back did some benchmarking OS vs OS some of the highlights are here: http://gaming.multiplay.co.uk/stats/server_os_comparison.htm FreeBSD does very well in a nu