On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:07, Michael Scheidell wrote: > My assumptions are that Linux should be better/faster at disk access > (which includes spooling email, mime defang, virus scan, and sql access)
Uhh why? > My other assumptions are that FBSD network drivers are faster, but in a > heavy email environment, SA (and your MTA) is mostly disk bound. Why * 2? I would expect them to be pretty similar - certainly not an order of magnitude difference. One thing I would check is to make sure your malloc options are sensible. I have seen Perl benchmarks where subtle malloc options can have a huge neg/pos impact on performance. > > Even the older FreeBSD systems running 5.x (and worse > > hardware) beat the pants off the GNU/Linux systems. > > Is FBSD 6.0 faster than 5.x? Does 64 bit help? I would expect there to be mostly parity performance between 32 & 64 bit, although you can put more RAM in a 64 bit version :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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