[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: Linux vs Solaris stats]

[Rick Cook]

> Not to sound like a Sun apologist or anything but why wasn't a benchmark done on an
> UltraSparc machine as well?  Solaris isn't exactly optimized (no matter how many
> times you recompile the kernel) for the Intel architecture.  I would have liked to
> see how UltraLinux would have fared against Solaris on the sun4u architecture.
> 
> To me, it is obvious that Linux will beat most any OS (maybe all??) on a PC.
> 
> Alton Pouncey
> 
>

Well,

I haven't run lmbench, but I have run the "old" Byte Unix BenchMark on 
Intel x86 boxes running Win98 and Linux and on UltraSPARCs (300Mhz Ultra II and a 360 Mhz Ultra 60). The summary is that the 450 Mhz x86 was ~ 2x faster
than the Ultra 60. Unfortunately, the results are on computers that are
detached from the external world... I may attempt to do the lmbench runs
later.


Rick