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From: James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org>
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To: "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>,
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Subject: Re: SMP Performance
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 06:51:34 +0800
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Hi there,

=09There were many instances of FreeBSD smp servers outdoing any other OS=
 on=20
certain/various tasks. It wold be better for you to try it first hand.=20
benchmarking programs at www.netlib.org might help you have a clearer ide=
a.



On Saturday 02 June 2001 06:35, Mario Doria wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a working SMP machine that I want to migrate to FreeBSD. Current=
ly
> it is running Linux kernel 2.4.5. The machine is a dual processor Penti=
um
> III @ 700 MHZ, with 768 MB in RAM (Dell PowerEdge 2400). I want to inst=
all
> FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and enable SMP. My problem is that I've read about
> rock-solid performance and of very poor performance with the same FreeB=
SD.
>
> I want to know about how stable (from other persons' experience), how f=
ast
> is it going to work (compared with linux) and your personal opinions ab=
out
> this.
>
> The programs that will run in this server are My SQL, Apache, QMail,
> STunnel, OpenSSL, Samba 2.2.0 and OpenSSH. I read a column by Moshe Bar
> comparing Linux's kernel 2.4.0 and FreeBSD
> (http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010130S0010) 4.1.1, in that column,
> FreeBSD emerged as a winner. Taking that column into account, I'm leani=
ng
> over to the BSD fence, but I want to be sure that this change is for th=
e
> better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mario Doria
>
>
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Regards,
James Lim
http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org
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