Date: 08 Jun 2001 11:24:46 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Lyris/SysAdmin mag: Fastest OS for Net Apps? Linux, Windows > FreeBSD Message-ID: <87wv6n0zb5.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F67VwPGxgelXDe0000a12d@hotmail.com> References: <LAW2-F67VwPGxgelXDe0000a12d@hotmail.com>
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Saw this on the qmail list and was intrigued. Good article, but
disappointing to find that in their tests the speed winners were
Linux, Solaris, Windows, and FreeBSD -- in that order. Is this due to
FreeBSD's conservative disk commits/writes, or possibly thread
inefficiencies, or something else? I find it hard to conceive of
Windows implementations of anything being faster, but...
From: John White <johnjohn@triceratops.com>
Subject: Lyris performance and article
To: qmail@list.cr.yp.to
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:42:43 -0700
SysAdmin has an article online by some of the top technical people
at Lyris (remember Lyris?):
Title: Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?
http://www.sysadminmag.com/newsletters/feature/
They use their MTA as a comparison tool, and crank it up to
the equvalent of a concurrencyremote of 3000, though they
don't seem to get much of a performance boost past 1000 on
the hardware they're using.
One of their conclusions is that their asynch multi-threaded
software model outperforms the process based model which qmail
uses. Is their methodology convincing? Well...
However, and interesting read.
John White
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