From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 17:15:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B327A16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:15:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474B943D53 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:15:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phil.brennan@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 1so764850rny for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:15:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=FKUfN/aqA9empGWky1iPKciCJQGsgkIKX+ettf7IMvAVRj3MOJK6OR8vtYcQDGGV5gnh6NxVwp4ImOW6e58Qocbdw14jwm5t1GbXIbdv5eQ71ZZYuHIC23A9S3b/QQkiXInDD54NhM4NPKryHGUBM/w4CbQX2+xbfTcWddCi/1k= Received: by 10.38.206.25 with SMTP id d25mr1043181rng; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.179.65 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:15:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:15:38 +0100 From: Phil Brennan To: Sarunas Vancevicius , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050327124610.GA1609@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050326224344.4152110C83@relay2.beelinegprs.ru> <20050326233120.GA4611@gothmog.gr> <20050327124610.GA1609@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie> Subject: Re: About FreeBSD and Solaris X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Phil Brennan List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:15:39 -0000 On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:46:11 +0100, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: > On 01:31, Sun 27 Mar 05, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Comparisons of FreeBSD vs. Solaris (especially version 10) would be nice > > material for freebsd-advocacy, I guess. > > Few weeks ago here in uni, some people got 2 guys working on Solaris > 10 to come in and give a talk. > > One talk was entitled "Simply no better answer than Solaris 10", > given by Damien Farnham. I think he is the manager for Solaris > Performance Team, Dublin, Ireland. > > I did ask him something on the lines of "How does Solaris 10 > compares to FreeBSD 5?". His answer was something on the lines of > "No one asked us that yet, so I wouldn't know" (or had the same > meaning). > > It would be interesting to see performance comparisons on different > platforms. As long as they aren't marketing-benchmarks... > > Sarunas > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > This mysql benchmark includes solaris 10 and freebsd 5.3. Its a month or two old now, but its the only one I've seen. Dag-Erling, how does this show solaris to be slow on x86? It certainly isn't slow compared to freebsd. http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207&tid=72&tid=29