On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Adam wrote:
> > PF and spamd, for example. bgpd may be a good candidate, too.
>
> Those scale better on openbsd than they do on freebsd and netbsd? Have
> you actually tested this?
No, I neither do benchmarking nor have I equipment and a large
enough network for doing real-world tests. But I know some people
that actually are running campus-sized networks or similar that
either reported good performance with OpenBSD or seriously consider
switching from Linux or FreeBSD based solutions to OpenBSD.
I really doubt that mearsuring PF, spamd or even bgpd makes any
sense in a small home network connected to the internet via DSL or
on a single rented root server.
Oh, but comparing general performance of Linux vs. OpenBSD on a
typical desktop/development PC, I *can* tell you that OpenBSD
performs much better, especially when the machine does lots of IO
in the background.
On my office PC (running Gentoo Linux), an "emerge-webrsync" pushes
the box into a nearly unusable state for 10 to 15 minutes.
Incomparision, when I rsync /usr/{XF4,ports,src} within my home
network from one machine to another, or just run cvs up on those
trees, the system is still usable. So much about Linux and performance
(sometimes I've the impression that Linux is only fast when idling).
Ciao,
Kili
ps: sorry for the delay, I was busy preparing some (little bit
foolish) OpenBSD installation demos.
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Buttons are for idiots.
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