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Xref: sserve news.software.nntp:14983 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4376 comp.os.linux.advocacy:16304 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!a2i!rahul.net!a2i!dandelion.com!not-for-mail From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Sun/Solaris or Pentium/Linux for new server ? Date: 6 Aug 1995 17:26:54 -0700 Organization: Dandelion Digital Lines: 20 Sender: lnz@dandelion.com Distribution: inet Message-ID: <403mke$ld@kelewan.dandelion.com> References: <3vlpgk$rdk@graphite.comco.com> <3vpg3g$q35@shell2.best.com> <3vq3if$jmp@dodgson.math.psu.edu> <3vuk6l$n2t@shell2.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dandelion.com NNTP-Posting-User: root In-reply-to: rcarter@best.com's message of 4 Aug 1995 19:14:45 -0700 In article <3vuk6l$n2t@shell2.best.com> rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter) writes: Are these available on the web, as my data is? I made a thorough comparison of NetBSD 1.0, FreeBSD 2.0, and Linux 1.0.* in November last year, and Linux was the loser by far. (Identical hardware: P54C-90, 64 MB, Quantum 1080S, NCR53C810) Since I committed to FreeBSD for my workstation cluster operating system, I haven't publicized my Linux numbers. I would really like to find publically available performance data for Linux bandwidth and tps, preferably on a variety of controllers and with interesting motherboards. I'm sorry, small HDPARMS don't qualify. This just goes to demonstrate how difficult it is to fairly compare performance among the various free operating systems. In November 1994, the NCR 53c810 support in Linux was considered alpha quality, and lacked disconnect/reconnect and synchronous data transfer capabilities, which severly impact performance and in my opinion made the NCR 53c810 completely unsuitable for use in a production system. Leonard