From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 11:50:44 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 C1254106566B for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:50:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from io.chir0n@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713A58FC15 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhfq46 with SMTP id q46so5484518yhf.13 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:50:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=kswvVXvpvpEhlaMR5hKo58MehrpqEG/kp/hDtEVk/20=; b=AytZLUxDYhSThZfODmPhmcbgTrIsWLBOpDjod487maHmwabWR1+6QjgyXz0In0O7Jh oGKKNIJ+UQuiAoI3TlljRtnN8xWPpnnrrGpcSN/EwwUb0B8+fpekPxzDBfcMCxg/2fZT Pd1GL4Oibv8O/2YQaz1DIhShOd+SlEzQfAydc= Received: by 10.236.76.201 with SMTP id b49mr2072338yhe.11.1324380475394; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:27:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.41] ([201.22.249.146]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r68sm2711462yhm.18.2011.12.20.03.27.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:27:54 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) From: Chiron IO In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:28:47 -0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <28E4047A-356A-4CCE-A134-9B24A7444806@gmail.com> References: <4EE1EAFE.3070408@m5p.com> <4EE2AE64.9060802@m5p.com> <4EE88343.2050302@m5p.com> <4EE933C6.4020209@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20111215024249.GA13557@icarus.home.lan> <4EE9A2A0.80607@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <6140271.20111219122721@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4EEF3FF9.7070307@digsys.bg> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) 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: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:50:44 -0000 Guys, I have a question about these benchmarks. Why worry about that if the CURRENT comes with debug enabled by default? = http://joaobarros.blogspot.com/2005/07/freebsd-how-to-turn-off-debug-optio= ns.html On 19/12/2011, at 22:28, Petro Rossini wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > just a thought here: >=20 > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Kalchev = wrote: >>> As were told, Phoronix used "default" setup, not tuned. >> Not really. They created some weird test environment, at least for = FreeBSD >> -- who knows, possibly for Linux as well. >>=20 >> For example, ZFS is by no means a default file system in FreeBSD. You = need >> to go trough manual steps, to enable it, to build the pool, = filesystems etc. >=20 > .. >=20 > Of course the benchmark setup and procedure is strange but.. >=20 > it could be improved, I think. >=20 > Have a good collection of tuning parameters for "popular cases", > advertised properly so it gets hard "to miss them". >=20 > I am a sysadmin and, over the years, I had to run file servers, > database servers, web servers, tomcats... >=20 > Well, most of the time I set it up and "it just works" because the > system in question is not maxed out, not even close to it. >=20 > But if I want to squeeze the last 20% out of it googling starts, and > here and there I find hints how to tune the OS, the file system, what > scheduler to use etc. >=20 > It would be great to have a set of case studies at hand, e.g. under > the /usr/share/examples directory, that describes tweaks to have a > performing postgresql server, or mysql, or apache or a desktop or.. >=20 > Things I find, for example, in the BSD Magazine. >=20 > Maybe benchmarks become more meaningful then.. >=20 > A general remark for people doing benchmarks for comparison: you need > a well-informed system engineer for the systems you compare. So, if > you compare a Linux system with FreeBSD, have two experienced admins > that know their OS well. >=20 > Regards > Peter > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"