Hi STeve, In my experience, OpenBSD's I/O operation speed depends on what I do. When I run rsync over a folder with many sub-folders and over 10,000 files (small files and large files), Linux is faster than OpenBSD.
Kind regards, Xianwen On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:40 AM, STeve Andre' <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/10/14 01:17, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > >> Lastly, I will remind you that the "fastest" OS compared to OpenBSD >>> is very likely less than 15%. Say its 25% even, and you could get >>> faster hardware to accomedate that. >>> >>> Come on, that is a false assertion. OpenBSD does have its warts, like >> everybody else out there. They are different warts compared to others. But >> IMHO running it slow with security is better than running it fast, and not >> paying attention to secuirty. >> > > It's false? You think OpenBSD is slower than 15%? I don't, based > on a few tests run against some version of Debian. It was faster, > both in terms of disk i/o and the running of a program that did > a lot of computations with little output. It seemed to me to be > less than 6%, using stopwatches but small enough to make me > stop testing. > > But I think you agree with the general tone of this? > > --STeve Andre' > > -- Xianwen Chen | xchen.tk
