Re: Samba/OpenBSD benchmarks.

["Matthew C. Weigel" <weigel+_(_at_)_pitt_(_dot_)_edu>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Shaolin Coding Monk wrote:

> I run Samba 2.0.4b here on OpenBSD 2.5/i386.  The machine is a AMD K62-300
> with 96 megs of ram and IDE disk.  I ran some tests with Samba on this
> machine, a identical machine but with only 32 RAM running FreeBSD
> 3.2-Release and P233MMX 256RAM IDE disk NT4 Server.  Under no load here
> were the results using a Linux smbclient as the client...Oh yeah 10mbps
> nothing else on the network..
> 
> OpenBSD 2.5 > 640-700k/sec
> FreeBSD 3.2-Release > 710-740k/sec
> NT 4.0 > 820-920k/sec

So just to clarify, an NT machine with more than twice the RAM and a
slightly slower processor did a little bit better?

...and FreeBSD did better than OpenBSD and almost as well as NT  with an
eighth the RAM?

 Matthew Weigel                                       Programmer/Sysadmin
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