From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 24 13:23:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.142.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67B237B5FA; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA39039; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:21:10 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:21:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: Adam , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to compare FreeBSD -> Solaris 8 ... In-Reply-To: <000201bff5aa$dd3162f0$0100000a@netfinity> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > > but I need suggestions on what software I should be running for > > > >doing the benchmarking ... it has to be apples to apples > > > >... iozone-freebsd vs iozone-solaris, etc ... > > > > > > > > Since there doesn't appear to be one already, I'll compile my > > > >results and put them up on a web page for everyone to see and comment > upon > > > >... > > > > > > Is that legal? Check the license for Solaris.. > > > > D'oh ... never thought about that, but now that you do mention it, most > > likely it isn't *sigh* God, I hate commercial software :( > > > > Welp, there goes that plan ... inhouse use only :( > > > It's not legal to benchmark two OSes and post the results ? Since when ? > That seems like BS to me. If that's true, the freedoms in this country are > already gone. Actually, from reading reports of benchmarking that the SQUID folks did and posted awhile back, several vendors have this "don't post results" policy ... I think it falls under "if we look good, go for it, but if we look bad, we'll sue your proverbial ass off" ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message