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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Date: 10 Sep 1996 11:15:57 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <513f4t$ac@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <50p41e$1ie@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <32305b37.590852758@news.intellistar.net> <aak2.842255270@Isis.MsState.Edu> <511pa6$avb@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27054 comp.unix.solaris:82157 comp.os.linux.misc:128329 Alan Coopersmith (alanc@ocf.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes in comp.unix.solaris: : |From the benchmarks on the net, Linux seems almost twice as fast as Solaris. : |Linux..................................... 12.2 : |Solaris 2.5............................... 6.2 : Unfortunately, they only benchmarked Solaris 2.5, not 2.5.1 - the : Pentium/PPro-optimized release. (How much of a difference this : makes in these benchmarks I can't say, but it should close some : of that difference - although since they don't say which Linux : they benchmarked either, it would be nice to know if it had the : old, slow network code or the new & improved stuff.) Someone else said: BSD....................................... 9.8 It would also be nice to know what BSD .... bearing in mind that FreeBSD hasn't been released w/ any pentium optimisations either. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....