From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 19:09:30 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 F15C2106566C for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:09:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sjg@evilcode.net) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE908FC17 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadj38 with SMTP id j38so9953286iad.13 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:09:29 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.159.72 with SMTP id k8mr2993028icx.14.1324408169088; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:09:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.163.106 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:09:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <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> <28E4047A-356A-4CCE-A134-9B24A7444806@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:09:28 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Samuel J. Greear" To: Chiron IO X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:11:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 19:09:30 -0000 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Chiron IO wrote: > 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-options.html > > > In the real world problems happen and someone has to be able to, in some fashion, identify and resolve those problems. As such, shipping FreeBSD releases with INVARIANTS disabled is a mistake and any benchmarks done without INVARIANTS enabled will fail to reflect most reasonable real world use-cases. Although these benchmarks cannot stand on their own merits for many reasons, I do not see how any benchmark is automatically invalidated by using the default development configuration. Sam