FreeBSD Performance Various open-source benchmarks by the Phoronix Test Suite v5.4.1 (Lipki). Intel Xeon E5420: Processor: Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.49GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: IBM x3550-[7978BCG]-, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 261GB OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 10.1-RELEASE (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 3.4.1 (SVN 208032), File-System: zfs Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5420 . 328.46 |==================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5420 . 1874 |====================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5420 . 3687.83 |=================================================== System BZIP2 Decompression Phoronix Test Suite v5.4.1 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5420 . 16.63 |=====================================================