Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:18:07 +0100 | From | Thomas Pornin <> | Subject | Performance comparison of Linux and FreeBSD |
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In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.9901200143180.21221-100000@dragon> you write: > Partly out of interest, and partly for a production OS choice, I have > decided to do a comparison of FreeBSD against Linux. I would like whatever > input/opinions can be thrown at me before I begin.
You might want to test web|nntp|database server on ufs and ext2 for both systems: linux now reads and write ufs, and (as far as I know) FreeBSD handles ext2. It is possible that, depending on the task, one filesystem would be intrinsically more efficient than the other (*).
I heard reports stating that Jaz drives are not well suited to anything except sequential read and writes: bad swap performance, reduced drive lifetime, and so on. Maybe you should install both systems directly on the harddrive (both with a 1 GB partition, inverting them with dd and a spare partition [or Jaz disk] at the end, to check the importance of the partition emplacement on the disk).
--Thomas Pornin
(*) By the way, if you find some mkfs.ufs that would run on linux, I am interested. Porting it from the BSD world is a bit hard, since it uses many heavily imbricated header files.
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