From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 18: 7:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD5D14BD8 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:07:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA28359; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:36:46 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA25375; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:36:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990330113644.F413@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:36:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ninja , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Linux vs. FreeBSD: Efficiency References: <005801be7a4f$59b98c90$92752e93@aeromdo2.snu.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <005801be7a4f$59b98c90$92752e93@aeromdo2.snu.ac.kr>; from Ninja on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 10:48:03AM +0900 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 30 March 1999 at 10:48:03 +0900, Ninja wrote: > I'm currenlty using linux and plan to change to FreeBSD to > learn more. But I have one question; > Which OS is efficient and fast is there's same source code > program ? I do not want to make a flame war, just want to know > user's point of view. My major computing job is numerical > simulation and program development. It's almost impossible to give an accurate answer to questions like this: it depends so much on what you're doing. If you're running a small number of number crunching programs, I would suspect that you won't find any difference at all, unless the programs use lots of virtual memory, in which case I would expect FreeBSD's VM system to give better performance than Linux. For an independent comparison of server machines, see http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message