From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 28 09:03:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1B6AFC for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 09:03:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-x233.google.com (mail-qa0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F10659 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 09:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id ii15so1374574qab.10 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ut6Z33x92VSju2iW32WBnvCtoDhOE5I3Ka6XbCqska8=; b=F/ZI90MNZSW3+hb2HoEjhSbyVDuahloEfZ41ZYFXzy021RC2geM5OAxwXlMs5IA6RV Da53VScSct13G3qPLbabX0wy+78TG1p765/Bqco2cLqkh3b+HZdo2oc8LoKP62PfKbQk mWmvhDSTV5V4Jf+fkaMe8jL09o/JuPm+OjwQWAark9LNvjw7xF5UNO5bczS/HxaIbAaE /MqOFNBar0nJPSYh76e6g9IwSrW2f62Qb7FwM1cYYin+g1yVa1n39MHG3zEL9NvYg+Yv wau+z6QLdm1NTFjdW8Nnuc/3A3NaPFNwnwQPphDpIFbQp8jwWTA04YqOw07/jyjvynIa FwIA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.52.212 with SMTP id j20mr4933356qag.64.1369731825261; Tue, 28 May 2013 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.199.66 with HTTP; Tue, 28 May 2013 02:03:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130528090822.6bfe8771@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> References: <20130528090822.6bfe8771@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 02:03:45 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6Yq7PQCnEfRWK68Z4kDSRyreYh4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: New Phoronix performance benchmarks between some Linuxes and *BSDs From: Adrian Chadd To: "O. Hartmann" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org 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 09:03:47 -0000 outperform at what? adrian On 28 May 2013 00:08, O. Hartmann wrote: > 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). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"