I have been with FreeBSD since 386BSD 0.0new and always was going for FreeBSD as my first choice for every server I built. Device drivers being a little later than for Linux was OK. Somehow I muddled through.
But now I feel like a stomach punch. The future of serving is AWS and the like.
There are so many things out there that say FreeBSD on AWS is slow.
Network: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/aws-ec2-ena-poor-network-performance-low-pps.77093/#post-492744 and some reports from 2016.
But even disk: incredible:
compared to Amazon Linux:
Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Or is this really so bad?
But now I feel like a stomach punch. The future of serving is AWS and the like.
There are so many things out there that say FreeBSD on AWS is slow.
Network: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/aws-ec2-ena-poor-network-performance-low-pps.77093/#post-492744 and some reports from 2016.
But even disk: incredible:
Code:
[root@freebsd ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvd1 bs=1G status=progress
^C28991029248 bytes (29 GB, 27 GiB) transferred 405.900s, 71 MB/s
28+0 records in
27+0 records out
28991029248 bytes transferred in 420.583038 secs (68930572 bytes/sec)
Code:
[root@linux ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xvdbt bs=1G status=progress
209379655680 bytes (209 GB) copied, 794.254631 s, 264 MB/s