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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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