Subject: Re: Performance comparisons
To: Brian Gregor <bgregor@buphy.bu.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/12/2000 09:16:56
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Brian Gregor wrote:

: 	HTTP - both linux & FreeBSD clients.  Serving pages, CGI,
: 	       NetBSD brought up the rear.  Serving large
: 	       files, beat Solaris.

This is a bit subjective.  There's some things, such as mmap()-vs-read(),
which _significantly_ impact these numbers; in my own benchmarks, over 2
years ago, NetBSD was far ahead of everyone but FreeBSD.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)