DigitalOcean offers VMs with FreeBSD!

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 06:28:23PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:

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> On 15.01.2015 14:29, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
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> > https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/presenting-freebsd-how-we-made-it-happen/
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> >  I didn't see this news on mailing lists :)
>  But here are some thread about FreeBSD is way slower than Linux in
> these virtual installations
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8888487

May be IOPS quotation?
Can you test with dd and custom kernel with MAXPHYS=1048576 ?