Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 22nd Feb 2007 23:26 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Reader
FreeBSD has a reputation of being slow in combination with MySQL, especially when compared to Linux. However, some recent improvements in the scheduler shows that FreeBSD now is pretty much on par with Linux. It also shows that Linux scales very badly after a certain amount of threads per CPU.
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2005-07-08
FreeBSD has always been slightly faster than Linux
Anyone who makes such a comment has no idea what they're talking about. Performance isn't something you can quantify with a number or even a graph. It's a vastly multidimensional space. For one thing, SMP performance in FreeBSD has generally been horrible compared to Linux for several years.
They're both excellent kernels with similar technical approaches. They differ mostly in code heritage and development model. Which performs better depends highly on too many factors to list.