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Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited

Posted by michael on from the no-holds-barred dept.

Beerwolff writes: "This time I have remembered the link to the Byte article that's a follow-up to two of Moshe Bar's previous articles comparing FreeBSD and Linux--This time with the new Linux VM. His Apache "results show that Linux is better at handling I/O cache than FreeBSD, and that FreeBSD is more efficient at building up and tearing down processes."" As usual, please take benchmarks with a grain of salt, caveat emptor, look before you leap, and so forth.

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  1. Whoa no Netbsd by outofpaper · · Score: 1, Funny

    What about the os for every thing. I wana see some benchmarks compairing a 8600 vax (runing netbsd) to this mans linux box.

  2. What happened to the physical RAM? by sasha328 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dear Moshe,

    I have noticed that you no longer require 2.5 GB of RAM:

    The machine came with 3 GB of RAM and two Xeon 900-MHz processors, but for this benchmark, I reduced the memory to 512 MB of RAM.

    If this RAM is looking for a good home, I am willing to oblige.

    Yours truely,

    Sasha

  3. Good to hear that Linux is catching up by SumDeusExMachina · · Score: 3, Funny
    After the disasterous VM mistakes that have been happening in the 2.4 Linux kernel series, it is good to see that it measures up with and in some cases even beats what is widely accepted as the best open source VM implementation on the planet.

    I think these kind of concrete results are what can help Linux out in breaking into the enterprise market. God knows IBM is pouring all they've got into it, and now that we have a killer VM, we'll probably be seeing Linux a lot more in mission critical systems such as database servers. All in all this is great news on the kernel front.

    As always, many props to Alan, Linus, et al. who make this kind of innovation possible.

    --

    Is your company running tools written by ma
  4. I'll tell you in Newspeak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    linuxtroll doubleplusungood verging crimethink linux 2.4 infallible VM problems imaginary

    stop immediate currentaction
    suggest doublepluswhack head
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  5. Re:Time to get the asbestos suit out .. by owenc · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, everytime a topic on slashdot looks like a flamefest (*BSD v. Linux / Emacs v. Vi) everyone says something about the impending flamefest, and I have yet to see one....

    Is my threshold too high?

  6. no, repub and demos are like windows flavors by wobblie · · Score: 2, Funny
    ... such as Win2K and WinXP. consider:
    • all are owned by corporations
    • none of them works worth a damn
    • everyone thinks they're different, but they're really the same, due to "product churning" every 2 years (elections = new releases)
    • they all have the personalities of screaming 2 year old children - always screaming "My this, my that, mine mine MINE!!!!"
    • everyone seems to like them for the same reasons (there "isn't anything else"). Suggesting windows users use linux is very much like asking a democrat to become a syndicalist.
  7. Answer to the MAXUSERS dilemma by ByTor-2112 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I e-mailed the fellow and he confirmed that both the MAXUSERS and kernel version listed in the article were misprints. He used 4.4-R and MAXUSERS was set at 200 (still too low for a high-volume server, IMO).