From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 28 07:08:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77319E62 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 07:08:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B946E18 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 07:08:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.80.1) for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1UhE19-000dTC-F5>; Tue, 28 May 2013 09:08:23 +0200 Received: from f052242046.adsl.alicedsl.de ([78.52.242.46] helo=thor.walstatt.dyndns.org) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.80.1) for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1UhE19-003S3k-CR>; Tue, 28 May 2013 09:08:23 +0200 Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:08:22 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: New Phoronix performance benchmarks between some Linuxes and *BSDs Message-ID: <20130528090822.6bfe8771@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> Organization: FU Berlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.1 (GTK+ 2.24.18; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 78.52.242.46 X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:08:33 -0000 Phoronix has emitted another of its "famous" performance tests comparing different flavours of Linux (their obvious favorite OS): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsd_linux_8way&num=1 It is "impressive, too, to see that PHORONIX did not benchmark the gaming performance - this is done exclusively on the Linux distributions, I guess in the lack of suitable graphics cards at Phronix (although it should be possible to compare the nVidia BLOB performance between each system). Although I'm not much impressed by the way the benchmarks are orchestrated, Phoronix is the only platform known to me providing those from time to time benchmarks on most recent available operating systems. Also, the bad performance of ZFS compared to to UFS2 seems to have a very harsh impact on systems were that memory- and performance-hog ZFS isn't really needed. Surprised and really disappointing (especially for me personally) is the worse performance of the Rodinia benchmark on the BSDs, for what I try to have deeper look inside to understand the circumstances of the setups and what this scientific benchmark is supposed to do and measure. But the overall conclusion shown on Phoronix is that what I see at our department which utilizes some Linux flavours, Ubuntu 12.01 or Suse and in a majority CentOS (older versions), which all outperform the several FreeBSd servers I maintain (FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE and FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT, so to end software compared to some older Linux kernels).