From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 11:02:10 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 36934106564A; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:02:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.larabel@phoronix.com) Received: from phx1.phoronix.com (173.192.77.202-static.reverse.softlayer.com [173.192.77.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002F28FC19; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-98-193-96-120.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([98.193.96.120] helo=[172.16.93.133]) by phx1.phoronix.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rb8Gs-0007DG-OQ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:10:38 -0600 Message-ID: <4EE9C79B.7080607@phoronix.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:10:35 -0600 From: Michael Larabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Ross 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - phx1.phoronix.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - phoronix.com Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD , "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: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:02:10 -0000 On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote: > Am 15.12.2011, 08:32 Uhr, schrieb O. Hartmann > : > >> Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzA >> >> It may be worth to discuss the sad performance of FBSD in some parts of >> the benchmark. A difference of a factor 10 or 100 is simply far beyond >> disapointing, it is more than inacceptable and by just reading those >> benchmarks, I'd like to drop thinking of using FreeBSD even as a backend >> server in scientific and business environments. In detail, some of the >> SciMark benches look disappointing. > > Why SciMark? > > SciMark FreeBSD : Oracle, Mflops > > Composite 884.79 : 844.03 (Faster: FreeBSD) > FFT 236.17 : 213.65 (Faster: FreeBSD) > Jacobi 970.76 : 974.84 (Faster: Oracle) > Monte Carlo 443.00 : 246.27 (Faster: FreeBSD) > Sparse Matrix 1213.64 : 1228.22 (Faster: Oracle) > Dense LU 1560.39 : 1557.18 (Faster: FreeBSD) > > > The threaded I/O results (Oracle outperforms FreeBSD by x10 on one, by > x100 on another test) > or the disc TPS ( 486 : 3526 ) sure look worse and are worth looking > into. > > > Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware, FWIW. > And with different filesystems, different compilers, different GUIs... > > No, the same hardware was used for each OS. In terms of the software, the stock software stack for each OS was used. -- Michael > > Regards, > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >