From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 22 05:41:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F6F1065670 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Received: from smtp-sofia.digsys.bg (smtp-sofia.digsys.bg [193.68.3.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39E98FC08 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dcave.digsys.bg (dcave.digsys.bg [192.92.129.5]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-sofia.digsys.bg (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBM5fUNq038933 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:41:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from daniel@digsys.bg) Message-ID: <4EF2C30A.9080209@digsys.bg> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:41:30 +0200 From: Daniel Kalchev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4EF25468.9040204@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EF25468.9040204@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:41:41 -0000 On 21.12.11 23:49, Johan Hendriks wrote: > > I my opinion, you benchmark the latest release of Linux, FreeBSD, > Solaris, Windows and whatever OS you want to compare! > There is no 'general benchmark' as there is not one single tasks that all computers are used for. If you want to benchmark something, then you define that something, tune all test subjects appropriately for that one thing and run the same test load. You then go on and claim 'for task X, the OS Y was best, followed by ...'. This is what people have done for PostgreSQL for example. You may try to see how, with that same settings different OS will perform with varying conditions, like what the PostgreSQL test did -- performance over the network and performance to localhost. Testing a system, tuned for a file server as X workstations will not tell you much about the abilities of the different operating systems to run a web server, or either file server or X workstation. By the way, the gcc in 8-stable is gcc version 4.2.2 20070831 prerelease [FreeBSD] Daniel