Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 in server performance

From: Sander Vesik (sander.vesik_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/06/05

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    Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:11:41 +0200
To: Josef El-Rayes <josef@freebsd.org>

    On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:19:49 +0000, Josef El-Rayes <josef@freebsd.org> wrote:
    > Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>:
    >
    > [...]
    >
    > > The results indicate that NetBSD
    > > has surpassed FreeBSD in performance on nearly every benchmark and
    > > is poised to grab the title of the best operating system for the
    > > server environment.''
    >
    > I think this is a conclusion drawn too early when there has not been
    > any comparison of each SMP implementation.
    > No one runs a toaster as a server environment.

    No but many people run servers on single CPU machines and performance
    on those matters too. Just because a benchmark result is not what you
    might like it to tell you doesn't mean its not valid or that it
    doesn't highlight valid concerns.

    For example on the process creation benchmark (and yes, it is a valid
    and interesting benchmark, even in uniprocessor case), its clear that
    both systems exhibit a split behaviour where in some processes are
    creating in some linear minimal time and others scale lineraily with
    number of processes. It just happens that in case of freebsd the
    majority appear to follow the linear case.

    There are also cases where FreeBSD is clearly ahead, which is good.

    >
    > greets, josef
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