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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:05:36 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: [ubench] Solaris8 outperforms FreeBSD 4.1RC3? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007282304340.569-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B301301C7878E@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com>

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On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Charles Randall wrote:

> The docs say it is a "rather senseless mathematical integer and
> floating-point calculations for 3 mins concurrently using several processes,
> and the result is Ubench CPU benchmark".
> 
> That leads me to believe that compiler optimization and code generation may
> have a big impact on the results.
> 
> Which compilers and optimization levels were used on each system?

ubench on FreeBSD is from ports, no changes there ...

ubench on Solaris used gcc 2.95.2 with -O5 set, which is the default that
ubench tries to use ...


> 
> Charles
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:29 PM
> To: sv@phystech.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: [ubench] Solaris8 outperforms FreeBSD 4.1RC3? 
> 
> 
> 
> Same hardware, Solaris8 vs FreeBSD 4.1RC ... machine is totally idle in
> both cases.  Dual-PIII 700, 1Gig of RAM ... do I read the numbers right in
> that SunOS 5.8 is faster then FreeBSD?
> 
> the system config can be seen at http://atelier.acadiau.ca, but I tried to
> do this as "stock" as possible ... basically, I did a CVSup upgrade to the
> FreeBSD side of things and am doing a patch upgrade to the Solaris ...
> 
> 
> Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
> Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
> Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
> SunOS 5.8 Generic i86pc
> Ubench CPU:    85395
> Ubench MEM:    67652
> --------------------
> Ubench AVG:    76523
> 
> 
> Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
> Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
> Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
> FreeBSD 4.1-RC3 FreeBSD 4.1-RC3 #0: Tue Jul 25  i386
> Ubench CPU:    75303
> Ubench MEM:    51770
> --------------------
> Ubench AVG:    63536
> 
> Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick:
> Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary:
> scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
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