From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 12:10: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FA737BE96; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:09:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA63523; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:09:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:09:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message