From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 19:44:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.quadrant.net (indigo.quadrant.net [207.195.92.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A11337B403 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@gerhardt-it.com) Received: from gerhardt-it.com (IDENT:root@h24-71-179-40.ss.shawcable.net [24.71.179.40]) by indigo.quadrant.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA06164 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:44:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3B3BECAF.262E56F4@gerhardt-it.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:49:19 -0600 From: Scott Gerhardt Reply-To: scott@gerhardt-it.com Organization: Gerhardt Information Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-7.0.1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Which OS is Fastest Article Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone read this article: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm "Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?" By Jeffrey b. Rothman and John Buckman Sys Admin July 2001 Volume 10 Number 7 I just finished reading the article and now I'm really confused. I was always under the impression that FreeBSD was a top performer compared to Linux, Win2000 and Solaris. The article suggests that FreeBSD is poor in terms of raw performance according to the tests performed in the article. I must say that the article does not take all factors such as stability and security into account. I may be starting a pretty ugly thread, but I'm interested in what other Sys Admins and FreeBSD users have to say based on real life experiences. - Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message