Re: Linux Distributions

The fact "about FreeBSD that is
going to make it faster than Linux" notes in B.Tiemann Michael C. Urban
"FreeBSD" (see part "Linux and FreeBSD")

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gilbert" <dgilbert(at)velocet(dot)ca>
To: <dwbear75(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Peter Darley" <pdarley(at)kinesis-cem(dot)com>; "Pgsql-Admin"
<pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Linux Distributions

> >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Ruhl <acruhl(at)sdf(dot)lonestar(dot)org> writes:
>
> Andy> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Peter Darley wrote:
> >> Andy, I've got nothing against FreeBSD, except that I'm familiar
> >> with Linux and not with BSD. What is it about FreeBSD that is
> >> going to make it faster than Linux? Any idea where I can find some
> >> comparative benchmarks? Thanks, Peter Darley
>
> Andy> I don't mean to start a flame war here...
>
> Andy> Actually, I've seen benchmarks (but don't remember where they
> Andy> are) that show that Linux and FreeBSD are amazingly equal at
> Andy> most activities on equivalent hardware.
>
> Andy> My point is, machines are faster when they are actually running.
>
> Well... from experience, there are points where FreeBSD has strong
> advantages. Memory management is an obvious one. NFS is is another.
> Softupdates (the native file system) also has a small edge. We run a
> linux binary on a FreeBSD cluster (100-or-so nodes) because the
> FreeBSD cluster will do about 5% more work than the exact same
> hardware booted with linux (we actually use a diskless DHCP boot ---
> so we can quickly swap back and forth to test).
>
> 5% isn't a huge difference, but it is a real world application.
>
> Dave.
>
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