BSD [and linux] Router / Firewall Testing
http://www.tancsa.com/blast.html results, data and following discussion from 2006 test of routing performance
Benchmark
Benchmarking Linux filesystems on software RAID 1 - Lone Wolves - Web, game, and open source development
http://www.jejik.com/articles/2008/04/benchmarking_linux_filesystems_on_software_raid_1/ notes on 3ware 9550XS vs md RAID1 for various filesystems on Linux
Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2569362/Exploring-Amazon-EC2-for-Scaleout-Applications very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/038735.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/038735.html freebsd and 8 cores horror stories
[russian] Сравнение производительности cryptoloop (losetup), dm-crypt (cryptsetup), dm-crypt LUKS (cryptsetup); AES vs blowfish - Чип и Дейл спешат на помощь
http://blog.unixstyle.ru/index.php?/archives/23-cryptoloop-losetup,-dm-crypt-cryptsetup,-dm-crypt-LUKS-cryptsetup;-AES-vs-blowfish.html linux disc encryption method – raw speed benchmarks
[Russian] PostgreSQL vs MySQL Performance test //Журнал «Системный администратор»
http://www.samag.ru/cgi-bin/go.pl?q=articles;n=07.2007;a=02 from Russian SysAdmin magazine
сравнение производительности MS SQL и PostGree применительно к 1С 8.1 / Сравнение СУБД : Форум на SQL.RU
http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?bid=10&tid=528465&pg=2 MSSQL vs PostgreSQL tested on 1C Server (russian accounting software)
[Russian] PostgreSQL 8.3 vs. 8.2 performance data
http://postgresmen.ru/articles/view/83 Postgresmen - PostgreSQL 8.3: улучшение производительности в разы
Networking scalability on high-performance servers
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-scalability/index.html?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=LP number of benchmarks of linux networking on SMP servers, with some tuning suggestions.
[PostgreSQL] 8.3 vs. 8.2 - a simple benchmark - mastermind's weblog
http://www.kaltenbrunner.cc/blog/index.php?/archives/21-8.3-vs.-8.2-a-simple-benchmark.html pgbench postgresql benchmark on DL380G5 (2x 2.33Ghz Quard Core, 12GB RAM 6 SAS RAID10)