Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:01:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Message-ID: <Pine.HPX.4.10.10002171232451.25351-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <v0422080eb4d1975ec780@[195.238.1.121]>
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > Well, I've got a Dell 1300 that I've recently installed with > FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, and I thought I'd run some benchmarks. Please > keep in mind that these numbers are *very* preliminary, and that they > measure only one aspect of the performance of this system. > Nevertheless, I find them quite enlightening, and thought that they > were good enough that I should share them with you here. Although these figures are good for a comparison with a pre-softupdates FreeBSD or say, Linux ext2/ext3 (does ext3 it exist yet?), it would be nice to have similar sort of benchmarks to compare with say, HPUX lvm, Solaris, or comparisons between FreeBSD+vinum+softupdates and Whatever+Veritas etc. Benchmarks that are appropriate to guage a comparison with some of the *slightly more expensive* commercial Unix boxes would be good for a number of reasons, not least to show your clients why you didn't spened $1m on commercial Unix no.1 for them but downloaded some "slow unreliable hunk of freeware rubbish that we can't bank our business on". Perhaps it would also improve our chances of finding things like Oracle ported to FreeBSD if commercial customers found out that FreeBSD has better disk i/o than the box they were about to spend far more money on ? Then again, maybe not... it's just an idea or maybe only my mad ramblings. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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