From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 05:41:44 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 87945106566C; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lacombar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50698FC13; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so5358899wgb.31 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:41:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=zYwTYYZjl5AzeYGUNZgksYv7U7ZRA1lgZiv53sHsLqY=; b=lCJZFKYrEgsc+rMVUFognpRqr6QWFYval5NLQOlVtyvVvEADUmR92ZFDun6eKFiSOq KLm+xWA8Z+WgFKHaKSywQBzTgwJ/VRBsNE0t39SIxj635aAtBY/TbXWCGyCI3pZ+QPIO +cFk/VR358rN8JR/6hsq1ompIKU8K/SCqIOXA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.18.233 with SMTP id z9mr10392844wid.0.1324014101856; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.99.226 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:41:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EE9A2A0.80607@zedat.fu-berlin.de> 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> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:41:41 -0500 Message-ID: From: Arnaud Lacombe To: "O. Hartmann" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: 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: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:41:44 -0000 Hi, On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzA > it might be worth highlighting that despite Oracle Linux 6.1 Server is using a kernel + compiler almost 2 years old, it still manages to out-perform the bleeding edge FreeBSD :-) Now, from what I've read so far in this thread, it seems that a lot of people are still in abnegation... my 0.2c, - Arnaud > 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. The overall image can't help over > the fact that in C-Ray FreeBSD is better performing. > > From the compiler, I'd like say there couldn't be a drop of more than 10 > - 15% in performance - but not 10 or 100 times. > > I'm just thinking about the discussion of SCHED_ULE and all the saur > spots we discussed when I stumbled over the test. > > Regards, > Oliver >