From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 12:17:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.142.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF4A37BD9E; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08639; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:14:54 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:14:54 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Adam 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, 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 :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message