Benchmark

http://www.samag.ru/art/07.2007/07.2007_02.html test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries

http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=17&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomhec.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Flinux_ip_routers.pdf&ei=yXDzSdjSD4yYtAPG_cXPCg&rct=j&q=linux+routing+performance&usg=AFQjCNGNHX6jWJ7Ybrg8Jod24MMenJYt0g Paper from vayatta with some benchmarks that shows raw ip forwarding performance with various packet sizes and % of packet losses. Basically 2.8 Intel celeron + 1G broadcom (tg3) cards can deliver ~150Mbps on 64b packets limited by CPU

http://sourceforge.net/projects/benchmarksql tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs

http://blogs.nologin.es/slopez/archives/17-Benchmarking-Databases-I.-Volatile-Storage..html PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle are compared using reasonable hardware setup and TPC-C like test with BenchmarkSQL tool (JDBC ) . This post will probably disappear soon as the author clearly violates oracle license that does not permit publishing benchmark results w/out permissions

http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected] Dell 2950

http://merlinmoncure.blogspot.com/2007/08/following-are-results-of-our-testing-of.html bonnie++ benchmark comparing dell perc 5 (lsi) hw raid controllers connected to Dell md1000 jbod box and linux md raid driver. (test was performed by a notable PostgreSQL developer )

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/jkshah/index.php?/archives/3-Problems-with-PostgreSQL-on-Multi-core-Systems-with-Multi-Terabyte-Data.html PostgreSQL: benchmarks and further analisys for OLTP workloads 8-32 cores with ~TB db size from Sun’s potgresql team

http://docs.rodecker.nl/10-GE_Routing_on_Linux.pdf paper describing linux 10G ethernet performance as per RFC2544

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/?ca=dgr-lnxw02FasterLinuxNet SMP and network performace in linux (tcp only, no forwarding)