On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:06:33 +0200 Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 am not saying OpenBSD doesn't work, I have used it for years for lots of stuff. I also know that I couldn't use it for lots of stuff because it would crash under heavy load. I know that when some of those bugs were finally fixed, it still couldn't handle anywhere close to what linux could, using the same hardware. > 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. The question was about scalability. If openbsd blows everything else away in scalability for some task, I would really like to know what that task is. Adam
