From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 10 16:30:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23158 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23153 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:30:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23153; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd023151; Sun Aug 10 23:22:04 1997 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:19:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: benchmark between osses In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk get a large software package off the net and compile it on each and compare the times.. similarly for other real work.. e.g. ray-tracing or grep for a line in some set of files etc.etc. This is about the only meaningfull benchmark.. of course make sure that both systems have the disks mounted sync or async as they have different default settings. On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know a nice thing to test the speed of FreeBSD v.s. Linux? > > -= Paul =- > >