In <1162862894.104440.185460@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com> "Karen Hill" <karen_hill22@yahoo.com> writes:

>news@buffy.sighup.org.uk wrote:

>> The question is impossible to even begin to answer without knowing a lot
>> more about the problem you are trying to solve.

>But of course, this is well known. Hopefully, my post did not read
>like I was trying to compare the operating systems on different
>hardware. Solaris 10 runs quite nicely on x86. For instance, let us
>say we have one x86 AMD server where we triple boot into Windows, Linux
>and Solaris 10 to do the performance tests.

>There should be an operating system that would have superior
>performance on that x86 AMD Opteron server even if the results
>(are/could) be close.

Such benchmarks have been done. Each OS was better in some areas and
poorer on others. Most of the time, the differences were not
significant. In general, any well-designed operating system will only
be a minor factor in performance tests. It will be the hardware that
limits performance. You should choose the operating system based on
criteria other than performance.


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