Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:32:06 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows Message-ID: <20081205163206.GC25258@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <ghb2qd$ij6$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <0016e64ca7d690e38f045d45227d@google.com> <ghb2qd$ij6$1@ger.gmane.org>
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--Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure > > if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response > > to someone else here just a few days ago, some very nice benchmarks > > provided by Kris ?Kenneway? I could be wrong on the last name, it just > > seems to me that's a last name I've seen with Kris frequently (my > > apologies Kris if I'm wrong). Using the URL that the other poster, > > posted, I poked around the other *.html files in that directory, but did > > not find any with FreeBSD pitted against windows. > >=20 > > I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At work, > > someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze embedded (CE > > and XPe) and it's been quite discouraging I must say, though I must > > admit, it's nice to actually know why Windows is ugly underneath. From a > > programming perspective, it's just not simplistic. Anyway, I digress, > > I'm just curious to see how things compare to Windows on similar > > benchmarks to what Kris provided if its ever been done. >=20 > I've done some benchmarking of Windows file system IO (NTFS) using known > tools like bonnie++, blogbench and postmark under cygwin and the results > are abysmal. It might be due to cygwin, and it might not. I've used > Windows Enterprise Server 2003. >=20 > You'll probably not find any difference in computational (numeric) tasks > and fairly bad results in tasks that do a lot of system work. While the usefulness of such benchmarks may be suspect, I'd still be interested in seeing your results. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin: "The decisions that really matter are made outside the democratic process." --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkk5V4YACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVt1QCgvDiMGlEruHDFXJf20r3QsC6+ +8wAnjnbzIu+96sKE/lkDQgk5eTgvVvq =+skK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Md/poaVZ8hnGTzuv--
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