From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 21: 5:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D89615342 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-115.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.115]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA17141; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:05:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA01014; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:05:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199904300405.XAA01014@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: notme Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Linux Vs. NT Vs. FreeBSD In-reply-to: Message from notme of "Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:30:38 PDT." <372923DE.FA7CBCEE@lvdi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 23:05:15 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG notme writes: > Hi > Sorry for the inapproperate subject, but I just wonder if > FreeBSD's performance in a multiprocessor enviornment > comparing to Linux and NT. The reason I'm asking is > because of the article in the following address: > > http://www.maximumpcmag.com/ > > which stated that Linux lost to NT in a test on a Quad > processor Dell server and the new test between the > two. If you search the recent archives, this "report" has been heavily discussed here and elsewhere. The 15 second summary was the "report" was financed by Microsoft and had MS's undivided attention to tuning the NT box. Linux/Apache was essentially box-stock. The Mindcraft "survey" has been reprinted in several places. You can read more about it at: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/04/27/1317238&mode=thread&threshold=0 Every other attempt to quantify the performance of a free Unix web server, the FreeBSD and Linux boxes trounced NT on the same CPU. As to Linux vs. FreeBSD, its generally ceeded that FreeBSD behaves better than Linux under heavy loads. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message