On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Nick Reinking wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:49:50PM +0000, Brion Vibber
wrote:
Wild speculation is welcome, particularly with
falsifiable hypotheses. :)
Well, in that case, I'd just chalk it up to Linux 2.4 performing badly
under very intense loads like that.
Now that I believe! Shall I install FreeBSD instead? ;)
(Serious side note: I've been running my home box on FreeBSD 5.1 for a
couple months and am generally pretty happy with it. Interactive response
under load -- large compiles for instance -- is better than on Red Hat 8 +
2.4.20 kernel, and it works with more of my hardware, such as my firewire
external hard drive which regularly crashes Linux. About the only thing
that bugs me about it is that the Linux compatibility libraries it ships
with are from an older Red Hat that's missing gtk2, and I haven't gotten
around to figuring out how to get it installed. So I've got gtk2 for
native apps, but I don't really want to try to build something like
Eclipse from source. :P
The majority of stuff I need is already in ports ready to install. Like
apt-get, but with more compiling!
I do my MediaWiki development and testing on this box, running Apache
2.0.something from ports and a self-compiled PHP with options. Partly I'm
trying to expand my horizons, and maybe catch a few errors due to platform
assumptions.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)