From: Anthony Roberts (anthonyrcalgaryhotmail.com)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 17:55:54 CDT

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>I'm wondering if the performance of OpenBSD could
>compare to a Linux distribution in an image server
>installment. The hardware will be two separate machines
>consisting in (1)P4 2.8GHz, (1)40G Serial ATA 7200RPM
>disk, 1G PC3200 DDR Memory built by Verari Systems.

I won't speak to their validity, but there were some benchmarks
doing the rounds a little while ago that showed FreeBSD and Linux
were significantly faster at that sort of thing.

http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/mirror/scale/bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

Those numbers are for old versions of all the OSes in question.
And the numbers don't represent ease of administration and security.
And there's probably major things wrong with the methodology,
etc, etc, etc

Whatever. Top performance isn't on the listed project goals, and
if OpenBSD isn't a top performer as a result, so be it. I'd be surprised
if that hardware wasn't up to the job no matter what the OS of
choice.

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