From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 7:41:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.iitb.ac.in (mailhost.iitb.ac.in [202.54.44.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 499D114D4B for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 07:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chirag@mitra.cse.iitb.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 5540 invoked from network); 19 Sep 1999 14:51:50 -0000 Received: from mitra.cse.iitb.ernet.in (chirag@144.16.111.21) by mailhost.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 19 Sep 1999 14:51:50 -0000 Received: (from chirag@localhost) by mitra.cse.iitb.ernet.in (8.8.7/8.8.8) id UAA06792 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:13:38 +0530 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:13:38 +0530 From: Chirag Kantharia To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: benchmarks for freebsd vs linux? Message-ID: <19990919201338.A6650@cse.iitb.ernet.in> Reply-To: Chirag Kantharia Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i X-URL: http://www.iitb.ernet.in/~chirag/ X-PGP-Key: http://www.iitb.ernet.in/~chirag/pgp.txt X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A59 920A 3380 8E13 113B B570 0B7B 94AA 34BA F5B8 X-PGP-KeyID: 0x34BAF5B8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I'm writing scripts for an online programming contest. Basically, the idea is that the participants mail the programs (C programs) to an machine where the mails are piped to a perl/python (haven't decided yet) script which would process the mail as in compile the program and run against test cases etc and reply back to the user informing him of the score. Well, for all this, I'm supposed to choose one machine from two - one of them is a 256MB RAM PIII and the other 512MB RAM PIII which is running linux (and which I cannot change). The machine with 256MB RAM has nothing installed on it as yet. I'm convinced of capabilities of FreeBSD and want to use it for the contest. But I can install FreeBSD on the 256MB RAM machine only. If you were in my position, what would you do? :( Are there any benchmarks available for running CPU intensive programs for freebsd and linux? Chyrag If at first you don't succeed, see if the loser gets anything. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message