From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 18:10:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FB01065672 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222A68FC18 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L52MN-0001Uj-A0 for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:10:03 +0000 Received: from 93-138-72-174.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.138.72.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:10:03 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 93-138-72-174.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:10:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:06:25 +0100 Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <20081125173657.GA50429@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigEBB76886489FF35CA724C7FF" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-138-72-174.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) In-Reply-To: <20081125173657.GA50429@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:10:06 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigEBB76886489FF35CA724C7FF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Roman Divacky wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:08:27PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Steven Hartland wrote: >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Darticle&item=3Dos_threeway_20= 08&num=3D1 >>> >>> Was interesting until I saw this:- >>> >> The results seem well within expectations, for the sort of benchmarks >> they did: there is little difference between the systems. Depending on= >> the details of how they did the benchmarks and how they processed the >> results (if at all), the results can even be within the margin of erro= r >> (i.e. useless for mutual comparison except to show the systems are all= >> very similar). >> >> The benchmarks they did are mostly focused on number crunching and do >> not even touch the area of system scalability to multiple CPUs, which >> could have been easily done but they chose not to. Number crunching is= a >> bad choice for system scalability measure because down to the metal, a= ll >> systems use similar compilers and there's nothing the OS can do to >=20 > I believe most of the synthetic numbers (mp3 encoding etc.) difference > comes from the different version of gcc the different OS uses... You're very likely right. Ubuntu 8.10 has gcc 4.3.x - it could make for the small difference in gzip and 7z compression performance. --------------enigEBB76886489FF35CA724C7FF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkksPqEACgkQldnAQVacBchyFgCdEh5iQeg+Paq/1HjjyRtPikj1 alsAn3ycA1yTkNKxCZQ/ekHT/71xh+zE =zNPW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEBB76886489FF35CA724C7FF--