Re: DragonFly vs FreeBSD scheduler

2012-11-03 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> Looks like a few specific benchmarks that DragonFly aimed to do well at that > we were unawares of. > Unawares of? http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/08/03/06/1313218/freebsd-70-bests-linux-in-smp-performance The FreeBSD project made hay with sysbench and pgbench not that long ago. > Not sure, didn

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
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 wrote: > Interestingly,

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Chiron IO wrote: > Guys, > > I have a question about these benchmarks. > > Why worry about that if the CURRENT comes with debug enabled by default? > > > http://joaobarros.blogspot.com/2005/07/freebsd-how-to-turn-off-debug-options.html > > > In the real world prob

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov : > Hello, Samuel. > You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: > >> Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are >> similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time >> should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer further evaluating

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
> Well, the only way it's going to get fixed is if someone sits down, > replicates it, and starts to document exactly what it is that these > benchmarks are/aren't doing. > I think you will find that investigation is largely a waste of time, because not only are some of these benchmarks just downr

Re: making a large RAMdisk?

2002-01-21 Thread Samuel J . Greear
On Monday 21 January 2002 10:20 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > I've got a machine with 4G of RAM, and I'm trying to test all the RAM out > to make sure it's okay. > > I've tried doing buildworlds, but never end up using more than 1G of RAM on > cache, etc. > > I've got -current and -stable on it, a