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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.teleport.com!netaxs.com!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.primenet.com!jstern From: jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: 8 Sep 1996 22:03:06 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5108eb$63n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> X-Posted-By: jstern@206.165.5.106 (jstern) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26882 comp.unix.solaris:81890 comp.os.linux.misc:127889 Stephen Haworth <shaworth@intellistar.net> wrote: >jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern) wrote: >>Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: >>>All of a sudden I have an urge to install, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD on >>>one machine, different partitions ofcourse and run some benchmarks to >>>compare the efficiency of these operating systems and then declare one >>>of these to be the most efficient Unix OS of the 3. >>>I know some of these may have more features than the other, but I am >>>mainly wanting to check kernel efficiency. Has anyone already done this ? >>You can find something like this done with the Byte Unix benchmarks >>on the Net Express web page: http://www.tdl.com/~netex >>(under the topic motherboards). >This site you refer to does the comparison on an Intel PC platform. >Let's see what kind of results we would get if we ran "efficiency" >tests on a machine which was actually designed to run Unix. Results from the same benchmark for a 167 MHz UltraSparc running Solaris 2.5 are/were listed there as well, though it didn't say how much RAM that machine had. >For the casual Unix user, Linux on a PC would probably be fine. For a >UNIX professional, you can't beat Solaris on an Ultra-Sparc. There >are MANY other considerations other than some random speed tests run >on a PC. How about security, scalability, and robustness of the OS?? What about them? Atif Ahmad Khan's question was about efficiency benchmarks. If you wanted to contribute to helping him answer his question, then you might suggest some specific benchmarks that you think are useful, or provide pointers to results of applying those benchmarks. - Josh -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jstern jstern@primenet.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------