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From: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 00:49:47 -0500
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Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> Alan Coopersmith (alanc@ocf.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
> : aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> : |From the benchmarks on the net, Linux seems almost twice as fast as Solaris.
> : |Linux..................................... 12.2
> : |Solaris 2.5...............................  6.2
> 
> : Unfortunately, they only benchmarked Solaris 2.5, not 2.5.1 - the
> : Pentium/PPro-optimized release.  (How much of a difference this
> : makes in these benchmarks I can't say, but it should close some
> : of that difference - although since they don't say which Linux
> : they benchmarked either, it would be nice to know if it had the
> : old, slow network code or the new & improved stuff.)
> 
> Someone else said:
> BSD.......................................  9.8
> 
> It would also be nice to know what BSD .... bearing in mind that FreeBSD
> hasn't been released w/ any pentium optimisations either.
> 
Also, the FreeBSD that they benchmarked is the "old stuff".  Even though
it isn't suggested -- there are people using FreeBSD-current in
production, and certain vintages of it are very good (and light
years beyond 2.1.X.)  And as always, FreeBSD is never compiled
-fomit-frame-pointer or with optimizations over -O out of the box.

IMO:
The best (and most reliable) benchmark for users is to really use the
OS.
John