From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 12:47: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7875237BDBF for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:46:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6OJkrY09378; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:46:52 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... Message-ID: <20000724124652.U13979@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:38:05PM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * The Hermit Hacker [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