Benchmarking OpenSSL on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by in Servers

Following on from my previous article Benchmarking Linux and FreeBSD, I decided to test the cryptographic speed of various Operating Systems (OS). For this test I used OpenSSL, which is the default cyptographic engine on Linux and FreeBSD. I had to install OpenSSL on Windows. Experiment 1 The versions used were (all 32 bit): FreeBSD […]

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Benchmarking Linux and FreeBSD

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by in Servers

I was recently reading an article by the phoronix.com team, where they benchmarked various operating systems for performance. On this occasion, they benchmarked FreeBSD 7.2, FreeBSD 8.0, Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12 and OpenSolaris 2010.02. The results were fairly unsurprising, Ubuntu and Fedora are really fast. Note: Unfortunately I think they made a huge error: the […]

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