From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 3: 9:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B7D14C91 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 03:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10296; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 11:01:36 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <372980D7.AD3A37B5@csl.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:07:19 +0000 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly Cc: notme , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Linux Vs. NT Vs. FreeBSD References: <199904300405.XAA01014@nospam.hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kelly wrote: > > notme writes: [snip] > > which stated that Linux lost to NT in a test on a Quad > > processor Dell server and the new test between the > > two. [snip] > Every other attempt to quantify the performance of a free Unix web > server, the FreeBSD and Linux boxes trounced NT on the same CPU. I take it by this you mean single CPU, relatively low-spec stuff, no? It hasx to be admitted that while Linux/FreeBSD will run happily on low-end stuff that NT won't, as you go up the scales the differences converge and, in the case of a quad-CPU, NT might have an edge of few % - but that's only in terms of performance - I suppose if you factor in stability in terms of time between reboots, that small edge probably goes away. > As to Linux vs. FreeBSD, its generally ceeded that FreeBSD behaves > better than Linux under heavy loads. I agree with this, but I'm not aware of any comparitive data between Linux 2.2.X and 'BSD 3.X - I have some "empirical" data: (a colleague and RedHat fan) dropped the Linux 2.2.something kernel onto his Mandrake installation and claimed it was much better then 2.0.34. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message