Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 06:51:34 +0800 From: James Lim <evilfry@sg.freebsd.org> To: "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <madd@tecdigital.net> Subject: Re: SMP Performance Message-ID: <01060206513405.00726@evilfry.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <004501c0eaeb$3f395530$0a00a8c0@midgar> References: <004501c0eaeb$3f395530$0a00a8c0@midgar>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, =09There were many instances of FreeBSD smp servers outdoing any other OS= on=20 certain/various tasks. It wold be better for you to try it first hand.=20 benchmarking programs at www.netlib.org might help you have a clearer ide= a. On Saturday 02 June 2001 06:35, Mario Doria wrote: > Hello, > > I have a working SMP machine that I want to migrate to FreeBSD. Current= ly > it is running Linux kernel 2.4.5. The machine is a dual processor Penti= um > III @ 700 MHZ, with 768 MB in RAM (Dell PowerEdge 2400). I want to inst= all > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and enable SMP. My problem is that I've read about > rock-solid performance and of very poor performance with the same FreeB= SD. > > I want to know about how stable (from other persons' experience), how f= ast > is it going to work (compared with linux) and your personal opinions ab= out > this. > > The programs that will run in this server are My SQL, Apache, QMail, > STunnel, OpenSSL, Samba 2.2.0 and OpenSSH. I read a column by Moshe Bar > comparing Linux's kernel 2.4.0 and FreeBSD > (http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20010130S0010) 4.1.1, in that column, > FreeBSD emerged as a winner. Taking that column into account, I'm leani= ng > over to the BSD fence, but I want to be sure that this change is for th= e > better. > > Thanks, > > Mario Doria > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - --=20 Regards, James Lim http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBOxgcdppTakonTMbIEQJaowCeM3xL+Jr7CYoJphHrbpB0BTRMUcsAoLjP x/7UilGnssAkoTztZpxvGo5+ =3Dm8eE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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