Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:57:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241257240.32665-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <20000724124652.U13979@fw.wintelcom.net>
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What exactly are softupdates? // Linh Pham // // Proud supporter of FreeBSD and OpenBSD // FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org // OpenBSD - http://www.openbsd.org /* "Oregon, n.: Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night." */ On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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