About FreeBSD and Solaris

[Phil Brennan]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:46:11 +0100, Sarunas Vancevicius
<svan at redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
> On 01:31, Sun 27 Mar 05, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Comparisons of FreeBSD vs. Solaris (especially version 10) would be nice
> > material for freebsd-advocacy, I guess.
> 
> Few weeks ago here in uni, some people got 2 guys working on Solaris
> 10 to come in and give a talk.
> 
> One talk was entitled "Simply no better answer than Solaris 10",
> given by Damien Farnham.  I think he is the manager for Solaris
> Performance Team, Dublin, Ireland.
> 
> I did ask him something on the lines of "How does Solaris 10
> compares to FreeBSD 5?".  His answer was something on the lines of
> "No one asked us that yet, so I wouldn't know" (or had the same
> meaning).
> 
> It would be interesting to see performance comparisons on different
> platforms. As long as they aren't marketing-benchmarks...
> 
> Sarunas
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This mysql benchmark includes solaris 10 and freebsd 5.3. Its a month
or two old now, but its the only one I've seen. Dag-Erling, how does
this show solaris to be slow on x86? It certainly isn't slow compared
to freebsd.

http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/27/1243207&tid=72&tid=29