From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 15 11:27:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11537 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@congo-84.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.227.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11530 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:27:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA00715; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:26:18 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:26:12 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux In-Reply-To: <19980215160519.03942@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sun, 15 February 1998 at 6:18:06 +0000, John Kelly wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 22:38:12 -0600 (CST), John Goerzen > > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Konrad Heuer wrote: > >> > >>> 1. The Linux scheduler which is very different from other UNIX > >>> schedulers (and thus the FreeBSD scheduler) behaves very poor when the > >>> system is heavily loaded (no fair scheduling!). > >> > >> In comparing Linux to SunOS and Solaris in heavliy-loaded systems, I can > >> say that Linux performed much better. However, I have not compared it > >> directly to FreeBSD. > > > > I have. Linux comes apart at the seams under load. FreeBSD just > > keeps going and going and going .... > > This ties in with just about every report I've heard about Linux, > though I have no personal experience in the area. I also find it hard > to believe that Linux should be able to beat Solaris 2 in this area. Heh. Try using Solaris x86 sometime. It's about on par with Windows NT obscurity and performance wise. - alex A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message