Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:18:55 +0100 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: "Michael Larabel" <michael.larabel@phoronix.com> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server Message-ID: <op.v6i21targ7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <4EE9D214.3070906@phoronix.com> References: <4EE1EAFE.3070408@m5p.com> <CAJ-FndDniGH8QoT=kUxOQ%2BzdVhWF0Z0NKLU0PGS-Gt=BK6noWw@mail.gmail.com> <4EE2AE64.9060802@m5p.com> <4EE88343.2050302@m5p.com> <CAFHbX1%2B5PttyZuNnYot8emTn_AWkABdJCvnpo5rcRxVXj0ypJA@mail.gmail.com> <4EE933C6.4020209@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAPjTQNEJDE17TLH-mDrG_-_Qa9R5N3mSeXSYYWtqz_DFidzYQw@mail.gmail.com> <20111215024249.GA13557@icarus.home.lan> <4EE9A2A0.80607@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <op.v6iv3qe5g7njmm@michael-think> <4EE9C79B.7080607@phoronix.com> <op.v6i1arfpg7njmm@michael-think> <4EE9D214.3070906@phoronix.com>
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Am 15.12.2011, 11:55 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel
<michael.larabel@phoronix.com>:
> On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote:
>> Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel
>> <michael.larabel@phoronix.com>:
>>
>>> On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote:
>>
>>>> Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware, FWIW.
>>>> And with different filesystems, different compilers, different GUIs...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, the same hardware was used for each OS.
>>>
>>
>> The picture under the heading "System Hardware / Software" does not
>> reflect that.
>>
>> Motherboard description differs, Chipset description for FreeBSD is
>> empty.
>>
>
> I was the on that carried out the testing and know that it was on the
> same system.
No offense. I'm not doubting you.
But I didn't know this:
> All of the testing, including the system tables, is fully automated.
> Under FreeBSD sometimes the parsing of some component strings isn't as
> nice as Linux and other supported operating systems by the Phoronix Test
> Suite. For the BSD motherboard string parsing it's grabbing
> hw.vendor/hw.product from sysctl.
so maybe you can understand how I got my impression.
NVidia Audio and Realtek Audio.
Looks different to me :-)
> Is there a better place to read the motherboard DMI information from?
>
Following Steven Hartlands' suggestion,
from one of my machines:
/usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode/#sysctl -a | egrep "hw.vendor|hw.product"
/usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode/#dmidecode -t 2
# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.6 present.
Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Product Name: D2759
Version: S26361-D2759-A13 WGS04 GS02
Serial Number: 35838599
Asset Tag: -
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is removable
Location In Chassis: -
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0
Nice. Didn't know about that.
Regards,
Michael
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