From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 14:18:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E23737B856 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MSILVER@scana.com) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id RAA14948; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from maildmis.scana.com(161.156.252.68) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma014921; Mon, 24 Jul 00 17:17:43 -0400 Received: from msg11.scana.com [161.156.252.68] by msg11.scana.com [161.156.252.68] (CMSPraetor 4.1.3395) with ESMTP id E7238DA3619411D4B3EE00A0C98F15C0 for plus 1 more; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:15:37 -0400 Received: by maildmis.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:15:37 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'The Hermit Hacker'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:15:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If numbers do slip out anonymously, our lips are sealed as to their possible source! ...Michael... 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 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