On Monday 13 September 2004 21:35, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
> The subject of benchmarking came up on the FreeBSD list and this test
> was referenced:
>
> http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
>
> The test seems to show that OpenBSD' performance lags way behind
> FreeBSD and Linux. I there any validity to this test?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo.
> Gerhardt Information Technologies

Tea leaves.

I reccomend tea leaves for all such analysis. Pick your own flavour, but
I prefer lapsang souchong.

Honestly, benchmarks are about the most slippery thing in the technical
world. Slant them any way you want, and you can make just about any
kind of statement with them.

The only benchmark that would help YOU is to make two systems and
compare with with the things that you want them to do. OpenBSD may,
or may not come out faster. Myself, I don't care--a system that is secure,
has readable documentation and is free is more important to me than
squeezing 7% extra disk throughput from a disk system.

--STeve Andre'