‘Haidut’ benchmarked several different systems using a vanilla install, and posted the results at his website. (Scroll down) Interestingly, the DragonFly results are quite competitive, especially considering that it’s in a massive transition.
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It’d make sense to test with later versions. OBSD 4.1 is out today, and latest PREVIEW of DF has significant changes, I’m particularly interested in MySQL performance.
I have upgraded a dul-PIII/800 webserver to the latest PREWIEW, recompiled all packages and compile times significally decreased, moreover the web performance (lighttpd/php5.1/mysql5.0) has increased , ad I think this is not a placebo effect.