Re: is FreeBSD losing vs Linux ?
From: Martin P. Hellwig (mhellwig_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 06/11/04
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:46:01 +0200
C++ Shark wrote:
> I recently came across this website that claims "The clear loser is
> OpenBSD; I have never seen bad performance of this magnitude. Even
> Windows would probably outperform OpenBSD." FreeBSD too, regardless of
> being well known for its high performance, seems to perform slightly
> poor when compared to linux.
>
> http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
>
> I personally like FreeBSD and NetBSD (no experience with OpenBSD) and
> prefer both to linux, and the results bother me. why would OpenBSD
> crash when you fork out more processes? Isn't it more secure than
> other bsd's? and forget NetBSD, portabilty comes at a cost, but if we
> directly compare FreeBSD with linux, doesn't it appear that linux
> performs better? someone please tell me that its wrong.
But then I again I saw hardware in action that only NetBSD would
smoothly run on, how can I compare performance if the other OS don't run
or crash and burn on the simplest tasks?
On the other hand I had single CPU servers which had the best
performance under FreeBSD 4.8 (the latest release at that time) compared
to whatever kernel available under linux).
However my laptop performance is equilivant to a snail with FreeBSD
5-current (and NetBSD), but is really snappy with Linux.
The suggestion that I would to express that it really depends on what
you have and what you want to do with it, if the only purpose is to
compare the network performance on different OS's with each other by
using consumer hardware then you do as the author did, which btw is an
excellent article and good benchmarking.
However give FreeBSD developers a bit of time on the AMD64 and then
compare the overall performance with an AMD64 server board (liken the 4
cpu tyan mobo) between FreeBSD-5(stable) and the Linux equilivant. I
don't know what the results will be, but it would be really interesting
IMHO.
--
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