For those who are interested:
On the NetBSD advocacy list there was a message summarizing
the LinuxTag event in Stuttgart, Germany.  daily.daemonnews.org
had a link to Thomas Graichen's performance comparisons between
NetBSD-current, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux 2.4, Linux 2.2, Solaris 7,
and Solaris 8.  Identical hardware was used for all tests.

These results are at:
	http://innominate.org/~tgr/slides/performance/tuning.htm

A quickie summary of how NetBSD did:
	Filesystem tests - On par with the other two BSD's,
			   faster than Linux, Solaris.
	NFS - both Linux & FreeBSD clients.  This varied
	     widely.
	HTTP - both linux & FreeBSD clients.  Serving pages, CGI,
	       NetBSD brought up the rear.  Serving large
	       files, beat Solaris.
	SQL - All systems roughly equal, except for Slowaris.
	Parallel computing - this is a parallel compile of Mesa 3.0.
	      NetBSD beats out all the other systems by a good
	      margin.

So, there it is.  For details, go to the URL above.  Personally,
I use NetBSD because of the quality of code, stability, and
friendliness of its user community, but performance is certainly
an issue for a lot of applications.




brian