FreeBSD 10.1 vs CentOS 7 (x64) - Running in ESXi6 VMware testing on FreeBSD via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5410: Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 @ 2.33GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: VMware VMware Virtual, Memory: 3072MB, Disk: NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10 1.00 + VMware Virtual disk 1.0, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel PRO/1000 Legacy Connection 1.0.6 OS: FreeBSD, Kernel: 10.1-RELEASE-p10 (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 3.4.1 (SVN 208032), File-System: ufs, System Layer: VMware Java SciMark 2.0 FFT Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5410 . 454.23 |==================================================== Java SciMark 2.0 SOR Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5410 . 940.21 |==================================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Composite Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5410 . 729.65 |==================================================== Java SciMark 2.0 Monte Carlo Performance Mflops > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5410 . 395.59 |==================================================== Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5410 . 105.86 |==================================================== Sunflow Rendering System 0.07.2 Global Illumination + Image Synthesis Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5410 . 6.49 |======================================================