Re: [UNIXS] Proy servers (fwd)

On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:36:45PM -0600, Duane Wessels wrote:
...
> (2) During the last bake-off, we received some criticism for running
> the tests and testing our own product.

  Damned if you do, and damned if you don't, eh?

> There is a conflict of
> interest if we write both the benchmarking software, the caching
> software, and perform all the tests ourselves.
>
> (3) Squid was represented by both Cobalt and Eolian. Perhaps
> you were not aware that Cobalt and Eolian are repackaged
> Squids?

Actually, I was surprised to see how low the Cobalt came in, knowing
that.
 
> If you'd like to see some benchmarking results for Squid under
> the Datacomm-1 workload, I'd be happy to run those tests and
> put it on our Web site.

  That sounds like a highly sensible way to achieve the same result as
publishing the tests in the magazine, with (hopefully) less criticism.

  I think most of this list's readers would love to see that.
  -- Clifton

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