ttw+bsd@cobbled.net wrote:
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> On 14.09-20:43, Nick Holland wrote:
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>> Speed matters.  Almost as much as some things, and nowhere near as
>> much as others.
>
> beautifully specific and vague, i'd challenge anyone to sum up
> benchmarking better.  if that's not a quote, it is now; i'm writing
> it down and sticking it to my wall.

Original material, as far as I know. :)

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>> [ ... ]
>> Practically speaking, the people who need the performance at the
>> edge of what OpenBSD can deliver usually are too busy to argue
>> benchmarks.
> 
> careful, that could be seen as an admission
> 	;-)

Yep.  Most performance-oriented thing I've done with OpenBSD was
firewalling a 45Mbps T3 line.  It did tax the machine a little bit,
but the primary firewall was a Celeron 600, about five years old at
the time it was put into service (failover was a PIII-750, which
showed a lot lower load, I think it was more the cache than the MHz).

Lame. :)

Nick.