From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 9:52:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8805537B401 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5TGsc183509; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:54:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:54:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: Subject: Re: Which OS is Fastest Article In-Reply-To: <3B3BECAF.262E56F4@gerhardt-it.com> Message-ID: <20010629115111.H76646-100000@earth.wnm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > 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. > We had the ugly thread a week or two ago. I refer you to http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=602613 for more information on comparative "benchmarks." -ac -- =================================================================== Alex Charalabidis Worldspice Technologies 5050 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN, USA +1 901 432 6000 Opinions expressed are mine alone but may be yours for a small fee. =================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message