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Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?
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Michal wrote:
> O. Hartmann wrote:
>> I'm just wondering what's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 when I read the
>> Benchmarks on Phoronix.org's website. Especially FreeBSD's threaded I/O
>> shows in contrast to all claims that have been to be improoved the
>> opposite.
>>
>> oh
> 
> This all reminds me  of a few releases ago MySQL performance being
> terrible. I guess this is still the same? 

No, this has effectively been fixed in 7.0:
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/os-mysql.png
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf

> We've had arguments internally
> weather certain machines are FreeBSD like some existing or Linux like
> other existing as Linux always out-performed by miles. We never tested
> these using on OpenBSD however, so I don't know if that had the same
> problem...

OpenBSD has terrible time adjusting to SMP. From the above PDF, I'd 
expect it to behave similarily to DragonflyBSD.