From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 21:25:07 2008 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 88992106564A for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:25:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thompsa@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pele.citylink.co.nz (pele.citylink.co.nz [202.8.44.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6828FC08 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:25:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thompsa@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pele.citylink.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2362BC47; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:59:12 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at citylink.co.nz Received: from pele.citylink.co.nz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pele.citylink.co.nz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id avS8h6TOdi+4; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:59:08 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from citylink.fud.org.nz (unknown [202.8.44.45]) by pele.citylink.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:59:08 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by citylink.fud.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 73EE711430; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:59:05 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:59:05 -0800 From: Andrew Thompson To: Steven Hartland Message-ID: <20081124205905.GA18565@citylink.fud.org.nz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:50:10 +0000 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance 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: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:25:07 -0000 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