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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:09:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241508590.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241334060.16873-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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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..

>
>	suggestions? thanks ...
>
>Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
>Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
>primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
>
>
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