From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 17:30:17 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 45AF7106575F for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02168FC53 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so34888qwb.7 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:30:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=9VyegABIteKp5LL/YrmCkKJ3iEYi1JeLPJ4l9r8Nzcg=; b=YfizpMBDFK1VcV+UPmKGBAA0pLHxA4zHIli4dbVyb41+mCmjTbzuqry6DA/DZSYNp+ BoWxkSOt8SoeaSnonzPOjstME8mrd7888P2QBHtbMv3yB0LFWIV+i47VmN+1MghaLlzo H/7OrHSbjc/OtRKMCErrc88mCyZ4VkOiSYl1g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=T6mpNyh6yPgiRytUS+Tpk6+nYLzESL6tc/lKmycSR8nmR41LF3x/ooYXQnybU088Kx CVoNYSIkscz+pQ3ocFv2BUoQOJ9svxbLaqhqTOrwks43N5dHugowbr2Wi68htBNtRyWQ yhHksX18k6MlMUSjqVv87HBSmhoDaMFO8xjiQ= Received: by 10.214.11.1 with SMTP id 1mr3995160qak.199.1227634210850; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:30:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.215.41.1 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:30:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:30:10 -0500 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "Mike Tancsa" In-Reply-To: <200811251716.mAPHGreB063704@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200811242107.mAOL7JB9058269@lava.sentex.ca> <200811251716.mAPHGreB063704@lava.sentex.ca> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c4c6b8734642d9ec Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland 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: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:17 -0000 2008/11/25 Mike Tancsa : > At 12:06 PM 11/25/2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> 2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings >> when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}. > > True, but then again is there such a thing as a synthetic benchmark that > would have a margin of error less than 2% while representing your real world > application mix? It depends, what do you think people read when making decisions? :) Bout the only thing that could fix this is for people involved with FreeBSD to re-do the benchmark, documenting how it was done wrong, and reporting on the results. Note that I didn't say "show FreeBSD is better", at least not in the initial round. Adrian