Byte: FreeBSD vs Linux Revisited

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.

Comments

Good to hear that Linux is catching up

[SumDeusExMachina]

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.

Re:Time to get the asbestos suit out ..

[owenc]

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?