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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmarks?
Date: 15 Nov 1995 00:10:52 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <1995Nov13.223235.66798@cc.usu.edu>,
Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>I noticed the FreeBSD distribution has lmbench, has anybody collected stats on
>various hardware setups running FreeBSD? Having a stack of these stats would
>really help me in convincing my boss to convert from FreeBSD to linux. Also,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
and you expect us to supply you with that information?
if you got that backwards then ok, but performance-wise
FreeBSD does pretty well.
the cannonical list is naturally being compiled by lm
(lm@sgi.com I think)
>having more stats on the Linux side would be useful as well. Heck, throw in
>NetBSD and any other OS which you've statted out using lmbench as well, more
>stats help one to get a better idea of how something is functioning in relation
>to others...
>
>-Brandon Gillespie-