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. -- Buttons are for idiots. -- Theo de Raadt