From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 11:19:10 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 9D734106564A; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:19:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gmx@ross.cx) Received: from www81.your-server.de (www81.your-server.de [213.133.104.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C488FC12; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [188.108.237.120] (helo=michael-think) by www81.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Rb9L7-0005Np-8H; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:19:07 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "Michael Larabel" 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> <4EE9C79B.7080607@phoronix.com> <4EE9D214.3070906@phoronix.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:18:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Michael Ross" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4EE9D214.3070906@phoronix.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.60 (Win32) X-Authenticated-Sender: gmx@ross.cx X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.97.3/14124/Wed Dec 14 16:10:02 2011) Cc: "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , 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 11:19:10 -0000 Am 15.12.2011, 11:55 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel : > On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote: >> Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel >> : >> >>> 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 used for each OS. >>> >> >> The picture under the heading "System Hardware / Software" does not >> reflect that. >> >> Motherboard description differs, Chipset description for FreeBSD is >> empty. >> > > I was the on that carried out the testing and know that it was on the > same system. No offense. I'm not doubting you. But I didn't know this: > All of the testing, including the system tables, is fully automated. > Under FreeBSD sometimes the parsing of some component strings isn't as > nice as Linux and other supported operating systems by the Phoronix Test > Suite. For the BSD motherboard string parsing it's grabbing > hw.vendor/hw.product from sysctl. so maybe you can understand how I got my impression. NVidia Audio and Realtek Audio. Looks different to me :-) > Is there a better place to read the motherboard DMI information from? > 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 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: FUJITSU Product Name: D2759 Version: S26361-D2759-A13 WGS04 GS02 Serial Number: 35838599 Asset Tag: - Features: Board is a hosting board Board is removable Location In Chassis: - Chassis Handle: 0x0003 Type: Motherboard Contained Object Handles: 0 Nice. Didn't know about that. Regards, Michael