From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 29 19:03:00 2009 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 4876C106566B for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:03:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from schulra@earlham.edu) Received: from chibanda.earlham.edu (chibanda.earlham.edu [159.28.1.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1910A8FC15 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:02:59 +0000 (UTC) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1254249841-072c1ba20001-3XdwJY Received: from karat.earlham.edu (karat.earlham.edu [159.28.1.86]) by chibanda.earlham.edu with ESMTP id FphBTaJBPlTa5doC for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: schulra@earlham.edu Received: from shee.earlham.edu (shee.earlham.edu [159.28.1.173]) by karat.earlham.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817521065885 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shee.earlham.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by shee.earlham.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D2F10A804F for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Randy Schultz To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-ID: <458792029.144491254249841202.JavaMail.root@shee.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <689d500ec8c95542a53440b8a23ae773@mail.liquidphlux.com> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [159.28.7.130] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.0_GA_1802.RHEL5_64 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 ([unknown])/6.0.0_GA_1802.RHEL5_64) X-Barracuda-Connect: karat.earlham.edu[159.28.1.86] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1254249841 X-Barracuda-URL: http://159.28.1.168:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at earlham.edu Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss... 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, 29 Sep 2009 19:03:00 -0000 ----- "Andrew Kuriger" spaketh thusly: | | Since the article says that they left the debugging features on I | think | this has a bit to do with it. Obviously the testers didn't care to | read the | documentation, and didn't seem to care to use the same compiler which | is | available in ports, I believe it is safe to chuck this lame | benchmark. Hrm. IMHO, this benchmark actually tells us something interesting. It tells us that with the anchor thrown overboard, freebsd is nearly as fast as linux. -- Randy (schulra@earlham.edu) 765.983.1283 <*> The penguin cometh