>
> I've been using NetBSD for a number of years as a hobbiest,
> but I just was asked to setup a *nix system at work to do some bench
> marking.  The hardware I have is a compaq DL380 with 4 procs and a
> SmartStart Raid controller.  I found the Raid controller in the hardware
> compatibility list, but I couldnt find any info on multi-proc support in
> NetBSD.

in -current it will possibly work

>
> I was asked to run it on Linux at first, but I was unable to locate drivers for the
> Raid controllers, so I'm hoping I can run this on more familiar
>territory.
>

at high load generated by hundreds or more processes, especially when it
will be joint CPU and disk (and net) load, NetBSD should win without any
problems (unless it is not well configured).

linux could possibly win in TCP transfer speed with one process.