From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 01:19:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0C316A4CF for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 01:19:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rfhs0023.fh-regensburg.de (rfhs0023.fh-regensburg.de [194.95.104.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFDF143D3F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 01:19:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hubert@feyrer.de) Received: (qmail 20838 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2005 01:19:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rfhs0023.fh-regensburg.de) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 01:19:41 -0000 Received: from rfhpc8323.fh-regensburg.de (rfhpc8323.fh-regensburg.de [194.95.108.191])j061JckY020833; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:19:39 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from hubert@feyrer.de) Received: from rfhpc8317 (rfhpc8317.fh-regensburg.de [194.95.108.65]) j061Jca21924; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:19:38 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:19:37 +0100 (CET) From: Hubert Feyrer X-X-Sender: feyrer@rfhpc8317 To: freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621, Antispam-Engine: 2.0.2.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.1.5.26 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 in server performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:19:47 -0000 Gregory McGarry asked me to host and advertize this paper for him: Abstract: ``With the recent releases of NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3 operating system, many new and exciting features have been implemented. Both criticism and commendation on performance, reliability and scalability have been directed towards these releases. This paper presents a suite of benchmarks and results for comparing the performance of these operating systems. The benchmarks target core operating system functionality, server scalability and thread implementation. These benchmarks are useful server-based criteria for demanding applications such as loaded webservers, databases, and voice-over-IP (VoIP) media relays. The results indicate that NetBSD has surpassed FreeBSD in performance on nearly every benchmark and is poised to grab the title of the best operating system for the server environment.'' URL: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/ - Hubert -- NetBSD - Free AND Open! (And of course secure, portable, yadda yadda)