Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:06:41 -0500 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance Message-ID: <d763ac660811250906q7be1e093yb2bf1ac6ecf52d3b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811242107.mAOL7JB9058269@lava.sentex.ca> References: <DE23C2B055DA4BC683BDCAA95FF7B736@multiplay.co.uk> <200811242107.mAOL7JB9058269@lava.sentex.ca>
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2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings
when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}.
2c,
Adrian
2008/11/24 Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>:
> At 03:28 PM 11/24/2008, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1
>>
>> Was interesting until I saw this:-
>>
>> "However, it's important to reiterate that all three operating systems
>> were left in their stock configurations and that no additional tweaking had
>> occurred."
>
> They all seem to be fairly close in the majority of tests.
>
> In the conclusion they write, "In our LAME MP3 encoding test, Ubuntu 8.10
> was the fastest followed by FreeBSD 7.1".... One needs to consider, the
> difference was 2%... Thats hardly anything to get excited about, especially
> if that difference can be accounted for by how much priority the scheduler
> gives to a userland app vs what the system is doing etc....
>
> Also, it would have been interesting to see more multithreaded work loads.
> A lot of the apps they tested seemed to be single threaded, doing one job.
>
> ---Mike
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