Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:37:47 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SXN0duFu?= <leccine@gmail.com> To: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Randy Schultz <schulra@earlham.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss... Message-ID: <b8592ed80909292237i38456d34r73928064c662ced1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <EB1D5BD4-48DE-42D3-9F0A-4F8D9345BAF2@gmail.com> References: <689d500ec8c95542a53440b8a23ae773@mail.liquidphlux.com> <458792029.144491254249841202.JavaMail.root@shee.earlham.edu> <3bbf2fe10909291209h3c2b1c57se68e6030c2a5a044@mail.gmail.com> <4AC2968C.6020206@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <EB1D5BD4-48DE-42D3-9F0A-4F8D9345BAF2@gmail.com>
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but if we measure the performance based on feelings we could advertise freebsd: "feels better" do not forget the marketing value :)) On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:21 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Well, since FreeBSD 8.0 started, I realized on several boxes (doens't >> matter whether SMP or UP, 2 GB or 8 GB or 16 GB) massive performance >> issues when compiling, even on a 8-core box. This is not 'measured' in >> > > hard numbers, it is the 'feeling' since we swapped to 8.0, but still >> crunching (oh, we need a lot of I/O performance in those number >> crunching environments) and even simple desktop, Linux, mostly Ubuntu >> and RedHat, outperforms FreeBSD. >> > > > We certainly do periodically have performance issues, but it isn't > realistic to expect us to tune for how it "feels" to you. Performance on > concrete workloads would contribute a great deal more to the discussion. > > > -Kip > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- the sun shines for all
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