Forum OpenACS Q&A: Which OS is Fastest for High-Performance Network Applications?

This is a post from the postgresql hackers list. It might be
interesting for openacs'ers as well:

"Hi All,

Here is a nice article comparing OSea to run hardcore net apps:

http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm

The article compares Linux (RH), FreeBSD, Solaris (Intel), and Windows
2000.
The tests were performed against the implementation TCP/IP
Architecture
on these platforms with different system calls, file systems tests
(EXT2 for Linux, UFS for FreeBSD
and Solaris, and NTFS for Windows 2000) for creating writing, and
reading
10,000 files, so some apps like different DBMS or other networks apps
depending on heavy disk I/O would perform on the OSes, and test of
various network
applications based on number of simultaneous connections,
process-based
vs. thread-based
and sync vs. async connection handling architectures.

Hope it might be helpful for you :)

Serguei"