From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 16:32:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1CD1065677 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-142.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-142.bluehost.com [67.222.38.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C25008FC0A for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:32:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 31869 invoked by uid 0); 5 Dec 2008 16:31:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy5.bluehost.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2008 16:31:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=ahzv5PQbEOw1DOyLV6/dwd40jgJNaXxyhaR0Z2W37yFiuyaO25Hl7dXonWDflq5ccPlOo9zT8V4xqY/wacA3uMPSi0NhuNdf6SmiCyORgb3xAthfpCW6Fc5n9tUISwWV; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L8dbF-000445-Ph for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:32:18 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:32:06 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:32:06 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081205163206.GC25258@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <0016e64ca7d690e38f045d45227d@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:32:21 -0000 --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure > > if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response > > to someone else here just a few days ago, some very nice benchmarks > > provided by Kris ?Kenneway? I could be wrong on the last name, it just > > seems to me that's a last name I've seen with Kris frequently (my > > apologies Kris if I'm wrong). Using the URL that the other poster, > > posted, I poked around the other *.html files in that directory, but did > > not find any with FreeBSD pitted against windows. > >=20 > > I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At work, > > someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze embedded (CE > > and XPe) and it's been quite discouraging I must say, though I must > > admit, it's nice to actually know why Windows is ugly underneath. From a > > programming perspective, it's just not simplistic. Anyway, I digress, > > I'm just curious to see how things compare to Windows on similar > > benchmarks to what Kris provided if its ever been done. >=20 > I've done some benchmarking of Windows file system IO (NTFS) using known > tools like bonnie++, blogbench and postmark under cygwin and the results > are abysmal. It might be due to cygwin, and it might not. I've used > Windows Enterprise Server 2003. >=20 > You'll probably not find any difference in computational (numeric) tasks > and fairly bad results in tasks that do a lot of system work. While the usefulness of such benchmarks may be suspect, I'd still be interested in seeing your results. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin: "The decisions that really matter are made outside the democratic process." --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk5V4YACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVt1QCgvDiMGlEruHDFXJf20r3QsC6+ +8wAnjnbzIu+96sKE/lkDQgk5eTgvVvq =+skK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv--