The benchmarks are completely off, and a recent version of Ubuntu with sane config would easily beat Freebsd.
My understanding is that the kernels are mostly equal. I’d be pretty surprised if one had a large impact one way or the other. Any differences I’d chalk up to the userspace program running it.
Don’t forget there are serious hardware differences. It’s not apples to apples.
But that’s ok. The author isn’t claiming FreeBSD is way better than Linux. It’s just a comparison of what he had vs what he has now.
Show me those benchmarks
From every benchmark I've seen so far, Linux has always been faster than the BSDs.
For example, look at these benchmarks from 2003[1]. The newest benchmarks I could find[2], [3] point in the same direction.
[1] http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
[2] https://matteocroce.it/blog/freebsd_linux_networking/
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/freebsd-15-amd-epyc-linux
My understanding is that the kernels are mostly equal. I’d be pretty surprised if one had a large impact one way or the other. Any differences I’d chalk up to the userspace program running it.
Don’t forget there are serious hardware differences. It’s not apples to apples.
But that’s ok. The author isn’t claiming FreeBSD is way better than Linux. It’s just a comparison of what he had vs what he has now.
Show me those benchmarks
From every benchmark I've seen so far, Linux has always been faster than the BSDs.
For example, look at these benchmarks from 2003[1]. The newest benchmarks I could find[2], [3] point in the same direction.
[1] http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
[2] https://matteocroce.it/blog/freebsd_linux_networking/
[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/freebsd-15-amd-epyc-linux