Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:58:28 -0500 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: matthew@phoronix.com Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk>, Michael Larabel <Michael@phoronix.com>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server Message-ID: <CACqU3MXz-vCt8Agkq=z7zyr7ptMgthRBsETxyaFQahX9X1uzPg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4eeb7cf9.43bfec0a.3e38.ffff9d19SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> References: <CAJ-VmomAh%2BWFEigp2kjA_nrzTGfFiM=T8rBuevO8tLGQMGj6Lw@mail.gmail.com> <4eeb7cf9.43bfec0a.3e38.ffff9d19SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com>
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Hi, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM, <matthew@phoronix.com> wrote: > Thanks. > > My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs the benchmark= to > ensure expected behaviour. > Why should you have to tune anything ? Did you tune the Oracle Server install ? If not, you should not have to tune the FreeBSD install, that wouldn't be fair. If you tune FreeBSD, you should tune the Oracle Server install too. It is pretty easy to win at least 30% in performance for certain workload by choosing the right kernel configuration. - Arnaud > The installation, execution and comparison against the benchmarks in the > article is fairly simple. > > Note that some tuning may not be relevant or recommended (ie: some of the= fs > benchmarks are sensitive to barriers and other synchronous operations). = =A0I'd > recommend bowing out of a benchmark with a 'we're going to be slower sinc= e > the default configuration is this way for the following reason' if this i= s > the case. > > Thanks 'someone'. > > Matthew > > > =A0Dec 16, 2011 8:46 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Can someone please write up a nice, concise blog post somewhere > outlining all of this? > > Extra bonus points if it's a blog that is picked up by > blogs.freebsdish.org and/or some of the other BSD sites. > > Guys/girls/fuzzy things - this is 2011; people look at shiny blog > sites with graphs rather than mailing lists. Sorry, we lost that > battle. :) > > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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