From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 12:14:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB45106566C for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:14:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edhoprima@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3438FC16 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaaf13 with SMTP id f13so6594270eaa.13 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:14:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=0wi/Wbuip3cH9qeu6x1992gVofK4PoRs2fI3qt+7/7w=; b=Hhw9GlA7hYve4ei9ITL5GoYQOrvx3lahn1SRvQO3RusmfZiq0mpU/ur70Z1djS3X+y T68iITu4eQp7L47Y2z16MtGnnxR+7i27PHup87WCS8KXTunlIorO0ZpaUu920U5WlLjT MO4OHxeaqleC3X8xrO74p8VxjUeolKNAPRg2U= Received: by 10.204.153.12 with SMTP id i12mr1363806bkw.134.1324296890338; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:14:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: edhoprima@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.99.148 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:14:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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> From: Edho Arief Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:14:29 +0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f60fFL58ifrd7aLVCLxH6cjeNFk Message-ID: To: "Samuel J. Greear" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Adrian Chadd , lev@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , Current FreeBSD , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" , Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:14:52 -0000 On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: > FreeBSD actually does _BETTER_ (subjectively) in this test than the > Linux system when you look at what is really going on. FreeBSD is > favoring writes, which is _GOOD_. FreeBSD does not need to be fixed, > the benchmarks need to be fixed to represent reality rather than > throwing half of the results in the trash. To be quite frank, "fixing" > FreeBSD to look good on this benchmark will make it a worse real-world > OS. But you guys go ahead and foot-shoot over these ridiculous > benchmarks all you want. > Would you prefer a blog which allows you to: A: - create/write 100 posts/s - serve/read 1000 posts/s or B: - create/write 80 posts/s - serve/read 3000 posts/s ? I would personally choose B. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org