Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:59:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org (Seth) Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Benchmarks Message-ID: <199904161959.MAA15823@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904141517130.29587-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> from "Seth" at Apr 14, 99 03:21:36 pm
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> Just something that was posted to #freebsd yesterday. I think it's pretty > interesting for a couple reasons I'll mention below: > > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html > > > Summary: Windows NT outperforms Linux Red Hat in ease-of-install, web > benchmarks, and file server benchmarks (using samba). > > What's hidden in here is that Microsoft sponsored this test (paid > Mindcraft to do it, I guess). > > Something I found interesting. There was a post a while back that > suggested that Microsoft would not allow benchmarks of its own products to > be posted by 3rd parties. Did I misread this? If not, it seems mighty > unfair of them to post benchmarks only when it's in their interest to do > so. > > I wonder how FreeBSD would stack up in these tests. Not very well. FreeBSD needs to export the LEASE interface to user space for the purpose of implementing opportunity locks; SAMBA already has code that would consume such an interface, so that constrains the implementation considerably. FreeBSD would significantly out-perform NT were that done. As to out-performing Linux, it's questionable. The FreeBSD TCP/IP packet transit time is currently about twice as large as that of Linux, due to some (not so) recent changes in the Linux TCP/IP stack (I didn't track them precisely; this is juse heresay from Jeremy Allison, currently the primary maintainer of SAMBA). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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