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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!EU.net!enews.sgi.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:49:47 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 33 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <323652FA.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> 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> <513f4t$ac@anorak.coverform.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27121 comp.unix.solaris:82292 comp.os.linux.misc:128621 Brian Somers wrote: > > 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. > Also, the FreeBSD that they benchmarked is the "old stuff". Even though it isn't suggested -- there are people using FreeBSD-current in production, and certain vintages of it are very good (and light years beyond 2.1.X.) And as always, FreeBSD is never compiled -fomit-frame-pointer or with optimizations over -O out of the box. IMO: The best (and most reliable) benchmark for users is to really use the OS. John