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

2012-01-05 Thread Denny Lin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:52:06PM -0800, Matthew Tippett wrote: Hmm... No sure what happened there again. What I sent (pulled from my Sent folder... === Thanks for the comment Arnaud. For comparative benchmarking on Phoronix.com http://Phoronix.com, Michael invariable leaves it in the

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

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Kuster
On 01/04/2012 20:52, Matthew Tippett wrote: As a service to the community or vendor that publishes the tuning guide, Michael is more than willing to redo a tuned vs untuned comparison. To date, the communities have never taken us up on that offer. In part, this affects Phoronix.com

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

2012-01-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM, matt...@phoronix.com wrote: Thanks. My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs the benchmark to ensure expected behaviour. Why should you have to tune anything ? Did you tune the Oracle Server install ? If not, you should not have to

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

2012-01-04 Thread matthew
Thanks for the comment Arnaud. For comparative benchmarking on [1]Phoronix.com, Michael inva= riable leaves it in the default configuration 'in the way the developers or= vendor wanted it for production'. This is by rule. However, i= nvariable the community or vendor for

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

2012-01-04 Thread Alexander Kabaev
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:31:55 -0800 matt...@phoronix.com wrote: Thanks for the comment Arnaud. For comparative benchmarking on[1]Phoronix.com, Michael inva configuration 'in the way the developers or production'. This is by rule. However, i poor scores on be 'it should be

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

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Tippett
Hmm... No sure what happened there again. What I sent (pulled from my Sent folder... === Thanks for the comment Arnaud. For comparative benchmarking on Phoronix.com http://Phoronix.com, Michael invariable leaves it in the default configuration 'in the way the developers or vendor wanted it

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

2012-01-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Arnaud Lacombe lacom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM,  matt...@phoronix.com wrote: Thanks. My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs the benchmark to ensure expected behaviour. Why should you have to tune anything

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

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:04:31PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: There maybe serious reasons having the Linuxulator, i do not know. But if not, why spending rare developer resources on that? This is a classical misunderstanding of the FreeBSD development model. There is no staff standing around

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

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Dec-24 15:49:00 +0100, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 12/23/11 12:38, Daniel Kalchev wrote: Here is now it works: If you see an problem and have a solution: go fix it. Many will be grateful. If you can't fix it, but have an idea how to fix it, share it. May

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

2011-12-30 Thread O. Hartmann
Am 12/30/11 10:07, schrieb Mark Linimon: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:04:31PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: There maybe serious reasons having the Linuxulator, i do not know. But if not, why spending rare developer resources on that? This is a classical misunderstanding of the FreeBSD development

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

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Dec 2011 12:25, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Look at Steve Kargls problem. He investigated a SCHED_ULE problem in a way that is far beyond enough! He gave tests, insights of his setup, bad performance compared to SCHED_4BSD and what happend? We are still stuck

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

2011-12-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, you assume in your comment that development time wasted in the linuxulator is time lost for other development. This assumption could be valid for a commercially developed OS, but is wrong for FreeBSD. I tell this as a person who spend a lot of time with the linux ports, mentored a GSoC

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

2011-12-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Am 12/28/11 15:24, schrieb Alexander Leidinger: Hi, you assume in your comment that development time wasted in the linuxulator is time lost for other development. This assumption could be valid for a commercially developed OS, but is wrong for FreeBSD. I tell this as a person who spend a

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

2011-12-25 Thread Radio młodych bandytów
Well, the post is OT, but I need some vent. On 2011-12-19 18:34, dan...@digsys.bg wrote: For example, few checkboxes with common sysctl tuning would be perfect, even if they would be marked as Experimental, or not recommended. By following this, we push FreeBSD into the Linux style of doing

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

2011-12-24 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 12:38, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 23.12.11 12:48, O. Hartmann wrote: Look at Steve Kargls problem. He investigated a SCHED_ULE problem in a way that is far beyond enough! He gave tests, insights of his setup, bad performance compared to SCHED_4BSD and what happend? We are still

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

2011-12-24 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 12:44, Alexander Best wrote: [...] Many suggested that the Linux binaries be run via the FreeBSD Linux emulation. Unchanged. There is one problem here though, the emulation is still 32 bit. plus the current emulation layer is far from complete. a lot of stuff hasn't been

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

2011-12-24 Thread Paul Pathiakis
; O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de; dan...@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2011 9:49 AM Subject: Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server On 12/23/11 12:38, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 23.12.11 12:48, O. Hartmann wrote: Look at Steve Kargls problem

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

2011-12-24 Thread Alex Kuster
On 12/24/2011 12:04, O. Hartmann wrote: There maybe serious reasons having the Linuxulator, i do not know. But if not, why spending rare developer resources on that? As far as I'm concerned, the only real reason having the Linuxulator is some stuff from Adobe for desktop systems, Flash. That's

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 23.12.11 03:17, O. Hartmann wrote: Or even look at the thread regarding to SCHED_ULE. Why has a user, experiencing really worse performance with SCHED_ULE, in a nearly scientific manner some engineer the fault? I'd expect the developer or care-taking engineer taking care in a more user

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 23.12.11 08:47, Martin Sugioarto wrote: A further thing is that I cannot understand the people here sometimes. I would like that the -RELEASE versions of FreeBSD perform well without any further optimizations. The -RELEASE things is just a freeze (or, let's say tested freeze) of the

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

2011-12-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/12/2011 02:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 23.12.11 12:48, O. Hartmann wrote: Look at Steve Kargls problem. He investigated a SCHED_ULE problem in a way that is far beyond enough! He gave tests, insights of his setup, bad performance compared to SCHED_4BSD and what happend? We are still stuck with this problem and more and more

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

2011-12-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Dec 23 11, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 23.12.11 08:47, Martin Sugioarto wrote: A further thing is that I cannot understand the people here sometimes. I would like that the -RELEASE versions of FreeBSD perform well without any further optimizations. The -RELEASE things is just a

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 07:47, Martin Sugioarto wrote: Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:17:00 +0100 schrieb O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Benchmarks also could lead developers to look into more details of the weak points of their OS, if they're open for that. Therefore, benchmarks are very useful. But

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 10:07, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 23.12.11 03:17, O. Hartmann wrote: Or even look at the thread regarding to SCHED_ULE. Why has a user, experiencing really worse performance with SCHED_ULE, in a nearly scientific manner some engineer the fault? I'd expect the developer or

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

2011-12-23 Thread Martin Sugioarto
Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:18:03 +0200 schrieb Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg: The -RELEASE things is just a freeze (or, let's say tested freeze) of the corresponding branch at some time. It is the code available and tested at that time. Hi Daniel, obviously performance is not a quality

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

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Linimon
I have slightly reordered your email in my reply, in order to put the most important item last. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:01:33PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm still with the system, although I desperately need scientific grade compilers or GPGPU support. Your use-case, while valid, is

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

2011-12-23 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:58:46 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 23.12.11 16:47, Martin Sugioarto wrote: I thought that the D in FreeBSD stands for distribution. Yes, it's ok that it compiles with LLVM. Does it also run faster in benchmarks? It does. From a language perspective. It is a distribution, because at the times BSD was developed, it was not

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

2011-12-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:00:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:58:46 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 15:47, Martin Sugioarto wrote: Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:18:03 +0200 schrieb Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg: The -RELEASE things is just a freeze (or, let's say tested freeze) of the corresponding branch at some time. It is the code available and tested at that time. Hi

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 16:24, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:00:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, December 22, 2011 6:58:46 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the

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

2011-12-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I think this thread has gone far, far off the rails. If you're able to provide some solid debugging or willing to put in the effort to provide said solid debugging, then great. The easier you can make it for someone to fix for you (whether they're a FreeBSD committer or otherwise) the more

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

2011-12-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I think this thread has gone far, far off the rails. If you're able to provide some solid debugging or willing to put in the effort to provide said solid debugging, then great. The easier you can make it for someone to fix for you (whether they're a FreeBSD committer or otherwise) the more

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

2011-12-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 23/12/2011 02:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander

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

2011-12-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/12/2011 20:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 23/12/2011 02:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: snip There is a wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning which is currently more or less tuning(7) with some annotations, the

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

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I extended the gcc part a little bit to make it a little bit more clear when it matters. Bye, Alexander. -- Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic and spelling errors. Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org hat geschrieben:Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan

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

2011-12-22 Thread Johan Hendriks
Stefan Esser schreef: Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the results are unlikely to tell you anything meaningful about FreeBSD vs Ubuntu.

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

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
My thoughts about benchmarking - don't forget, it's the way to get at least estimate on how your system will behave in given circumstances. When testers measured new videocard, they tested few factors, like FPS in modern games, pixel/texture fillrate, and whatever they do there else. That's

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

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 11:02, Johan Hendriks wrote: Stefan Esser schreef: Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: If you tune up FreeBSD to use the GCC 4.7 compiler, or downgrade linux to 4.2.1, then that will tell me nothing about FreeBSD vs Linux. The gcc version distributed with FreeBSD was

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

2011-12-22 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On 22.12.11 00:33, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: Using the same argument one can say that Ferrari F430 vs Toyota Prius is a meaningless comparison because the under-the-hood equipment is different.  Of course, it is meaningless,

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

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 11:56, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchevdan...@digsys.bg wrote: Of course, it is meaningless, the Ferrari will lose big time in the fuel consumption comparison! I believe it will also lose the price comparison as well. Not to speak the

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

2011-12-22 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 22 December 2011 10:12, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: As for how fast to get from point A to point B. If you observe speed limits, that will depend only on the pilot, no? :) Both cars are sufficiently faster than the imposed speed limits. You are ignoring acceleration, handling,

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

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 12:50, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 22 December 2011 10:12, Daniel Kalchevdan...@digsys.bg wrote: As for how fast to get from point A to point B. If you observe speed limits, that will depend only on the pilot, no? :) Both cars are sufficiently faster than the imposed speed limits.

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what can be

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

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 10:02, Johan Hendriks wrote: Stefan Esser schreef: Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the results are unlikely to tell you

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 10:56, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: [...] Any 'benchmark' has a goal. You first define the goal and then measure how different contenders achieve it. Reaching the goal may have several measurable metrics, that you will use

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

2011-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone

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

2011-12-22 Thread Martin Sugioarto
Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:17:00 +0100 schrieb O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Benchmarks also could lead developers to look into more details of the weak points of their OS, if they're open for that. Therefore, benchmarks are very useful. But not if any real fault of the OS is excused

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

2011-12-21 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 03:29:25PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: This also interested me: * Linux system crashed http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg8.html * OpenIndiana system crashed same way as Linux system

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

2011-12-21 Thread N V
21.12.2011, 04:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: On 12/21/11 00:29, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:  On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:23PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:  On 12/20/11 22:45, Samuel J. Greear wrote:  

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

2011-12-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what can be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some

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

2011-12-21 Thread Johan Hendriks
Alexander Leidinger schreef: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what can be improved. The page is far

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

2011-12-21 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the results are unlikely to tell you anything meaningful about FreeBSD

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

2011-12-21 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 21 December 2011 22:03, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the

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

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Nebdal
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Johan Hendriks joh.hendr...@gmail.com wrote: Alexander Leidinger schreef: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to

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

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 21.12.11 23:49, Johan Hendriks wrote: I my opinion, you benchmark the latest release of Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows and whatever OS you want to compare! There is no 'general benchmark' as there is not one single tasks that all computers are used for. If you want to benchmark

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

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 00:33, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: Using the same argument one can say that Ferrari F430 vs Toyota Prius is a meaningless comparison because the under-the-hood equipment is different. Of course, it is meaningless, the Ferrari will lose big time in the fuel consumption comparison! I

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

2011-12-21 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the results are unlikely to tell you anything meaningful about FreeBSD vs Ubuntu. [/quote] That is

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

2011-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow yeren...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just found recently (my shame of course) in mail list that there is

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

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow yeren...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just found

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

2011-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter where I get my images from. Checksums compared to what? How would you know what the

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

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter where I get my images from.

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

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 20.12.11 11:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter where I get my images from. Relying on checksums that are published on the same web site where you download the files

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

2011-12-20 Thread Chiron IO
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 On 19/12/2011, at 22:28, Petro Rossini wrote: Hi all, just a thought here: On

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

2011-12-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 20/12/2011 10:39, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 20.12.11 11:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter where I get my images from. Relying on checksums that are published on the

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

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 20/12/2011 10:39, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 20.12.11 11:42, Garrett Cooper wrote: As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter

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 io.chi...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread Chiron IO
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DefaultDebuggingKnobs I am not aware of any linux distribution that comes with debug enabled by default, even on RC releases. It seems that this approach (debug by default) is welcome to help solve problems that might appear, but I would be happy if these benchmarks

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

2011-12-20 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
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,

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

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

2011-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/20/11 22:45, Samuel J. Greear wrote: 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:23PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/20/11 22:45, Samuel J. Greear wrote: 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
Bottom post this time to follow Oliver :). On 12/20/2011 02:54 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/20/11 22:45, Samuel J. Greear wrote: 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

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

2011-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/21/11 00:29, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:54:23PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/20/11 22:45, Samuel J. Greear wrote: http://www.osnews.com/story/25334/DragonFly_BSD_MP_Performance_Significantly_Improved PostgreSQL tests, see the linked PDF for #'s on FreeBSD,

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

2011-12-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
Is there a specific version of the test suite that should be used, to compare against the published results? Adrian On 20 December 2011 17:18, Matthew Tippett matt...@phoronix.com wrote: For such a system, the greatest immediate value would be to attempt to reproduce the benchmarks in

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

2011-12-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
For such a system, the greatest immediate value would be to attempt to reproduce the benchmarks in question. Install PTS from www.phoronix-test-suite.com or freshports.org. Run the benchmark against those used in the article phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 You will

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

2011-12-20 Thread matthew
The benchmarks themselves are versioned. So in general most of the av= ailable versions of PTS itself should be fine. PTS can be considered = an execution shell that doesn't affect the benchmark itself. Note th= at you'll download a pile of the benchmarks, build and install

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

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Larabel
Any version is fine that's PTS 3.0 or newer in terms of being compatible, since the test profiles are versioned separately and automatically fetched to match the result file. However, I'd recommended the newest (PTS 3.6) as it contains the best FreeBSD support at present in terms of

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

2011-12-19 Thread 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 this garbage. (Yes, I have been down

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

2011-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/12/2011 08:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Here is one problem: we have choice from three items: (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing FreeBSD (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing Phoronix (communication with them, convincing, that they benchamrks are unfare

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Adrian. You wrote 16 декабря 2011 г., 20:43:27: Guys/girls/fuzzy things - this is 2011; people look at shiny blog sites with graphs rather than mailing lists. Sorry, we lost that battle. :) My thoughts exactly. -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Matthew. You wrote 19 декабря 2011 г., 13:13:09: (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing FreeBSD (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing Phoronix (communication with them, convincing, that they benchamrks are unfare / meaningless, ets) (2a) Ignore Phoronix,

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lars Engels
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:13:09AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/12/2011 08:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Here is one problem: we have choice from three items: (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing FreeBSD (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by fixing Phoronix

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

2011-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/19/11 09:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: 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

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 l...@freebsd.org: 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

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

2011-12-19 Thread Edho Arief
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net 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

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

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
IMHO, no offence, as always. As were told, Phoronix used default setup, not tuned. So? Is average user will tune it after setup? No, he'll get same defaults, and would expect same performance as in tests, and he probably get it. The problem of FreeBSD is not it's default settings, some kind of

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

2011-12-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 19 dec 2011, at 12:50, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: 2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org: 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

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

2011-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/19/11 13:21, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 19 dec 2011, at 12:50, Samuel J. Greear s...@evilcode.net wrote: 2011/12/19 Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org: Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly

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

2011-12-19 Thread Daniel Kalchev
I have already canceled few replies to this thread, but... On 19.12.11 15:16, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: IMHO, no offence, as always. I feel obliged to include the same disclaimer :-) As were told, Phoronix used default setup, not tuned. Not really. They created some weird test

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

2011-12-19 Thread Petro Rossini
Hi all, just a thought here: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: As were told, Phoronix used default setup, not tuned. Not really. They created some weird test environment, at least for FreeBSD -- who knows, possibly for Linux as well. For example, ZFS

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Ross
Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel michael.lara...@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

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Larabel
On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel michael.lara...@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,

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Ross
Am 15.12.2011, 11:55 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel michael.lara...@phoronix.com: On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel michael.lara...@phoronix.com: On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Anyway these tests were performed on

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

2011-12-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all, Am 15.12.2011 um 12:18 schrieb Michael Ross: 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

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

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:55:16AM -0600, Michael Larabel wrote: On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel michael.lara...@phoronix.com: On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware,

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

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:32:47AM -0700, Samuel J. Greear wrote: 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

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Larabel
On 12/15/2011 08:26 AM, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: 15.12.2011 17:36, Michael Larabel пишет: On 12/15/2011 07:25 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 15.12.2011 11:10, schrieb Michael Larabel: No, the same hardware was used for each OS. In terms of the software, the stock software stack for each OS was

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