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From: kris@schulung.netuse.de (Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hntopp?= )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems
Date: 7 Sep 1996 13:53:09 GMT
Organization: D/T/B Informationszerarbeitende Systeme, Kiel
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aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:
>All of a sudden I have an urge to install, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD on
>one machine, different partitions ofcourse and run some benchmarks to
>compare the efficiency of these operating systems and then declare one
>of these to be the most efficient Unix OS of the 3.
>I know some of these may have more features than the other, but I am
>mainly wanting to check kernel efficiency. Has anyone already done this ?
Well, there is "A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating
Systems on the Pentium" by Kevin Lai and Mary Baker, Dept. of
Computer Science, Standford University.
{laik,mgbaker}@plastique.standford.edu or
http://mosquitonet.standford.edu.
The discussion of their findings in USENET was somewhat
controversial.
Kristian
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