FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks :(

[Sabre]

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Does't make me feel very good about my favorite OS

[schvin]

meh. i'll take other features (security, usability) over raw performance any day.

how much do you suspect that some/most of those packages are primarily developed by linux developers, thus various biases/etc.

perhaps a lame excuse, but i've always been shocked over the years at how many "good" open source packages utterly failed to work on non-linux platforms. it's not that hard to build on a sane environment. in many cases, i think many developers don't bother to actually read the specs of the libs they are relying on.

ok, yeah, soap box.

[Sabre]

meh. i'll take other features (security, usability) over raw performance any day.

how much do you suspect that some/most of those packages are primarily developed by linux developers, thus various biases/etc.

Oh, I totally agree with you on security and usability, but I really did think that some of the numbers would be a lot closer. The new version of the scheduler should have definitely helped in this test. I totally agree with you on the libraries/code: It's really optimized for Linux and then ported over to FreeBSD with minimal modification to get it working... but not optimized.

[schvin]

i'll have to read up on the new scheduler. i haven't used fbsd in prod in a long time, beyond vm's, freebsie, etc...

[Libra Monkee]

Is BSD supposed to be a performer? I never thought so. I know it makes a pretty good firewall.

[Sabre]

Is BSD supposed to be a performer? I never thought so. I know it makes a pretty good firewall.

Secure, fast and stable is what I think every OS tries to be (at least, I hope so). FreeBSD + Apache for years was the fastest web server around, but now I think that is kind of up in the air. The TCP/IP stack has always been a very strong point as well.