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http://www.osnews.com/story/25334/DragonFly_BSD_MP_Performance_Significantly_Improved

PostgreSQL tests, see the linked PDF for #'s on FreeBSD, DragonFly, Linux
and Solaris. Steps to reproduce these benchmarks provided.

Sam

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>wrote:

> Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on
> criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative
> benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to
> benchmark real world performance, equally, nobody has offered any
> numbers in relation to, for example, HTTP or SMTP, or any other "real
> world"-application torture tests done on the aforementioned two
> platforms... IMO, this just goes to show that "doing is hard" and
> "criticising is much easier" (yes, I am aware of the irony involved in
> making this statement, but someone has to!)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Igor M :-)
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