Slashdot: BSDNews for nerds, stuff that mattersFreeBSD 7.0 Bests Linux In SMP Performance- March 6, 2008 cecom writes "After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Linux kernels (PDF, see slides 17 to 19) on 8 CPUs under PostgreSQL and MySQL. While a couple of benchmarks are not conclusive evidence, it can be assumed that FreeBSD will once again be a serious performance contender. Some posters on LWN have noted that the level of Linux performance could be related to the Completely Fair Scheduler, which was merged into the 2.6.23...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/246753533/article.pl |