> > Some rapid conclusions: > - Scientific Linux smokes all other operating systems > - DragonFly and FreeBSD performance is mostly the same, FreeBSD degrades > faster under high loads > - NetBSD has trouble handling high numbers of database clients but still > manages to scale when numbers are low > - Keeping processes on the same location they last ran on increases > performance by a few percents
Very interesting. I wonder what do Linux people do differently to get their OS so much faster. I would have imagined maybe 20% faster than BSDs, but a whopping 100%? That almost doesn't sound right.