From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 20:13: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c014.sfo.cp.net (c014-h014.c014.sfo.cp.net [209.228.12.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B5837B931 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:12:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dchance@valuedata.net) Received: (cpmta 20647 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2000 20:12:52 -0700 Date: 24 Jul 2000 20:12:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20000725031252.20646.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 25 Jul 2000 03:12:52 GMT Received: from [209.83.193.158] by mail.valuedata.net with HTTP; 24 Jul 2000 20:12:52 PDT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org From: dchance@valuedata.net Cc: bsdx@looksharp.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.6.5.3 Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG looks like someone has read your mind already :) this was posted on slashdot http://innominate.org/%7Etgr/slides/performance/ it compares OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, and a couple others I believe. That what you're looking for? Daryl Chance On Mon, 24 July 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > 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 > > >... > > > > Is that legal? Check the license for Solaris.. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message