Benchmark Matrix

This page represents the set of benchmarks people have run or are running on FreeBSD in order to try and track the performance of the system. Please follow the table here exactly.

While you're working on benchmarks please be sure to follow the guidelines given, originally, in Poul-Henning Kamp's email which is kept under BenchmarkAdvice.

Please keep the ExampleBenchmark at the top of the table and sort so that newest=first.

Benchmark Name	URL of Script or Test	Benchmarker	OS Version	Relevance
ExampleBenchmark	!http://www.example.lala	GeorgeNevilleNeil	7.0	Example
Network routing and firewalls	http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html	Mike Tancsa	Multiple (including Linux)	RELENG_4 is still king of speed
DNS test (bind)	list posting	Dave	4.11, 6.1, -stable, -current	Equal or faster than Ubuntu 6.06
MySQL+RT benchmark	list posting	Mike Tancsa	6.2-PRERELEASE	Speed almost equivalent to Linux 2.6.18.1
Gigabit network+firewall	list posting	Kirill Ponazdyr	6.1-RELEASE	Gigabit speeds with various options
4.x vs 7.x: forwarding and nat	WrapTest	PaoloPisati	4.11 & 12/2006 HEAD	Forwarding and nat tests