On 24 Sep 2003, Doug Quale wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > scott.marlowe wrote:
> > >
> > > Someone on the list recently compared them, and linux came out marginally
> > > faster than FreeBSD, but the difference was way less than what a faster
> > > I/O subsystem, faster / more memory, or faster / more CPUs would make.
> >
> > That test was flawed because the user later reports that their IDE disks
> > weren't using DMA on FreeBSD, while it was being used on Linux. He
> > promised to report back.
>
> The results on the website were updated on August 28 to fix this flaw
> and to incorporate some suggestions made on the pgsql-performance list
> (see http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/postgresql.php).
>
> I don't know why he didn't report back to the list. He expressed the
> desire that BSD benchmark faster than Linux, but the Linux numbers he
> reports are still about 8-10% better than the FreeBSD numbers. Both
> BSD and Linux are undergoing rapid development so this is pretty close
> to even.
I thought he HAD reported back to this list that he'd changed the
settings. Not sure now, been a while.