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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. Not a VM benchmark by velco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Note that this is systems benchmark, not a VM one.
    There are a lot more different things in the two
    kernels, than the VM. And note, that the server was
    SMP, an area where FreeBSD folks admit "Linux is a
    year ahead". It may turn out in the end that
    actually the FreeBSD VM performs better, making
    able the Big Lock BSD kernel catch up with more
    fine graned Linux .
    -velco
    Lies, damned lies, statistics