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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:14:54 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241613570.16873-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241508590.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Adam wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> >
> >Morning all ...
> >
> >	I have this box sitting around idle right now ... 1Gig of RAM,
> >several 9 gig scsi hard drives ... no OS.
> >
> >	I'm going to install FreeBSD 4.x on it this afternoon and want to
> >run a load of tests on it and save the results ... benchmark the disk I/O,
> >memory, SMP capabilities, network I/O, etc ... basically, I want to
> >compare the two OSs on the exact same hardware, and see how they compare
> >... 
> >
> >	but I need suggestions on what software I should be running for
> >doing the benchmarking ... it has to be apples to apples
> >... iozone-freebsd vs iozone-solaris, etc ... 
> >
> >	Since there doesn't appear to be one already, I'll compile my
> >results and put them up on a web page for everyone to see and comment upon
> >... 
> 
> Is that legal?  Check the license for Solaris..

D'oh ... never thought about that, but now that you do mention it, most
likely it isn't *sigh*  God, I hate commercial software :(

Welp, there goes that plan ... inhouse use only :(




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