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by Thaxll 30 days ago
The benchmarks are completely off, and a recent version of Ubuntu with sane config would easily beat Freebsd.
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vsgherzi 30 days ago
My understanding is that the kernels are mostly equal. I’d be pretty surprised if one had a large impact one way or the other. Any differences I’d chalk up to the userspace program running it.
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MBCook 29 days ago
Don’t forget there are serious hardware differences. It’s not apples to apples.

But that’s ok. The author isn’t claiming FreeBSD is way better than Linux. It’s just a comparison of what he had vs what he has now.

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Gud 29 days ago
Show me those benchmarks
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nolist_policy 29 days ago
From every benchmark I've seen so far, Linux has always been faster than the BSDs.

For example, look at these benchmarks from 2003[1]. The newest benchmarks I could find[2], [3] point in the same direction.

[1] http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

[2] https://matteocroce.it/blog/freebsd_linux_networking/

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/freebsd-15-amd-epyc-linux

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Gud 27 days ago
The comment I replied to pointed out that the benchmarks were old, which I agree with.

Both 1 and 2 are old and irrelevant, the 3rd has no clear winner?

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