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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Peter Darley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Pgsql-Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 1:54 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Linux Distributions > >>>>> "Andy" == Andy Ruhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > ============================================================================ > |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | > |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | > |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | > =========================================================GLO================ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
