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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech2!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!shellx.best.com!shellx.best.com!not-for-mail From: rcarter@shellx.best.com (Russell Carter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarks? Date: 14 Nov 1995 19:28:32 -0800 Organization: Best Internet Communications Lines: 42 Message-ID: <48bmp0$2f7@shellx.best.com> References: <1995Nov13.223235.66798@cc.usu.edu> <48bb6c$q8h@times.tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shellx.best.com In article <48bb6c$q8h@times.tfs.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@mailhub.tfs.com> wrote: >In article <1995Nov13.223235.66798@cc.usu.edu>, >Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cc.usu.edu> wrote: >>I noticed the FreeBSD distribution has lmbench, has anybody collected stats on >>various hardware setups running FreeBSD? Having a stack of these stats would >>really help me in convincing my boss to convert from FreeBSD to linux. Also, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > and you expect us to supply you with that information? > > if you got that backwards then ok, but performance-wise > FreeBSD does pretty well. > > the cannonical list is naturally being compiled by lm > (lm@sgi.com I think) > >>having more stats on the Linux side would be useful as well. Heck, throw in >>NetBSD and any other OS which you've statted out using lmbench as well, more >>stats help one to get a better idea of how something is functioning in relation >>to others... >> >>-Brandon Gillespie- > > Well... either way this is fun! I've got a stack of the stats and da Boss might have a bit of trouble figuring out why Linux is bettah... or FreeBSD for that matter. I think you've got to have a trifle understanding about what is going on in order to make a good judgement, for *your* applications, running on *your* hardware. (that's for you, Brandon :-) But I think da big pitcher is da Boss might have trouble understanding just exactly why the worker bees recommend SUNSGIIBMHPDEC after seeing the most recent lmbench stuff..., unless of course da Boss don't care about the performance side of things, which given the distribution of wealth among owners of Operating System Companies, seems likely. ahem. Cheers, Russell (sorta apologies for the lapse(s) to dialect...)