Re: [perf-discuss] Netperf on identical hardware: FreeBSD vs. Solaris

2006-04-25 Thread Peter Tribble
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:32, Mike Pogue wrote: > Here's an interesting comparison, done by the textdrive.com folks. I thought > that the OpenSolaris performance community might be interested. > > http://weblog.textdrive.com/article/220/comparative-netperf-network-performance-of-freebsd-versus-

[perf-discuss] Netperf on identical hardware: FreeBSD vs. Solaris

2006-04-24 Thread Mike Pogue
I'm a big fan of doing comparative performance tests on [u]identical hardware[/u]. This eliminates a whole bunch of pesky extraneous variables, which can mess up (bias) a performance comparison. My pet peeve: I've seen ads in the past (I won't say which company created them!) that said "Sola