From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 21:46:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caracal.noc.ucla.edu (caracal.noc.ucla.edu [169.232.10.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB0C37B73F for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meckhert@ucla.edu) Received: from esp (lsajca1-ar2-009-145.dsl.gtei.net [4.33.9.145]) by caracal.noc.ucla.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA07065 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: From: "Marc Eckhert" To: Subject: RE: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:53:45 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bff5f4$50fb8730$91092104@esp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-reply-to: <20000725031252.20646.cpmta@c014.sfo.cp.net> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Slashdot just posted an article that does some comparisons between FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD and some Linux distros. Hope this helps. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/24/1938227&mode=thread -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of dchance@valuedata.net Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:13 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bsdx@looksharp.net; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message