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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:59:05 -0800
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance
Message-ID:  <20081124205905.GA18565@citylink.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <DE23C2B055DA4BC683BDCAA95FF7B736@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <DE23C2B055DA4BC683BDCAA95FF7B736@multiplay.co.uk>

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:28:11PM -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1
> 
> Was interesting until I saw this:-
> 
> "However, it's important to reiterate that all three operating systems were 
> left in their stock configurations and that no additional tweaking had 
> occurred."
> 
> I kernel debugging stuff still enabled in FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2, if so these results are useless
> and someone should contact the article writers to correct this.

The stable branches do not have any debugging turned on, only head. This
would have been true if they tested a point-zero release like 7.0 BETA 2.


Andrew



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