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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:46:52 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ...
Message-ID:  <20000724124652.U13979@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241334060.16873-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:38:05PM -0300
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241334060.16873-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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* The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [000724 09:44] 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
> ... 
> 
> 	suggestions? thanks ...

Enable softupdates and blow solaris out of the water on file/metadata
intensive tests. :)

-Alfred


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