From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 01:29:31 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 29EA01065675; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:29:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992F88FC13; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfk1 with SMTP id fk1so9273525vcb.13 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:29:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uiHoaCecTy8i62ljEyDn8TNea/c6xahUxa/A1fPBeb8=; b=Pzqnx0y4tN2mVFfGo8rcVLAmixoHR43lvNtAchgG9UNe85vmr3QyydHPk94wcKAioF 0jQgWZ7uYvYfOk3KxQ6DzFXzKcAC6VHaL1F4RX94LCRuNSvmQ2VySZRbDGvqAVwuLEph QJ3m2D6h7ZlDla07+qPflASsqkV+8ZJMLdHE4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.232.10 with SMTP id js10mr3491829vcb.2.1324430969838; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:29:29 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.158.104 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:29:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4EF133D0.4050800@phoronix.com> 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> <4EF10088.1010409@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <4EF133D0.4050800@phoronix.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:29:29 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 62l0R5YMedc4zy-sUOAXdflMBKE Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Matthew Tippett Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , Current FreeBSD , Igor Mozolevsky , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, "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: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:29:31 -0000 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 wrote: > 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 > > =A0 =A0phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 > > You will be asked to push the comparison up to openbenchmarking at the en= d. > > Matthew > > > On 12/20/2011 01:39 PM, O. Hartmann wrote: >> >> On 12/20/11 21:20, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: >>> >>> 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, for example, HTTP or SMTP, or any other "real >>> world"-application torture tests done on the aforementioned two >>> platforms... IMO, this just goes to show that "doing is hard" and >>> "criticising is much easier" (yes, I am aware of the irony involved in >>> making this statement, but someone has to!) >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Igor M :-) >> >> Unfortunately, M. Larabel is the only one who's performing benchmarks on >> FreeBSD, comparing its performance to the Linux-opponents. Adn indeed, >> there is a lot of criticism, but no alternative. >> I said unfortunately - not offensive - since Larabel and Phoronix are >> sadly the only ones who do actually such bechmarking. >> >> It would be much more nicer and kind to support those people. >> >> Well, in January/February we get new hardware. One box is supposed to do >> number crunching via 12 cores and a TESLA GPU. My colleague is >> developing a high parallelized peice of software for satellite data >> transformation. The software package is CPU bound, partially GPU, but >> massively memory hungry (96 to 128 GB RAM is needed). >> What I can offer is, since I will also work on that machine and I've >> free hand to administer, in the spare time of doing my PhD, installing >> FreeBSD 9.0/10.0 besides SuSe Linux and looking forward having one ZFS >> data storage drive for homes, so both systems can perform on a most >> recent ZFS. I'm new to Linux, not a BSD guru, nor I'm a professional >> programmer/developer. My skills are sufficient for the daily scientific >> work. So, without pressure, I'm willing to perform some HPC benchmarks >> under advice if the day comes and those interested in bare numbers of >> FreeBSD vs. Linux performance with a real-world-scientific application. >> >> I would appreciate to see some of the developers and/or FreeBSD hackers >> to help Phoronix setting up a proper testenvironment instead of bashing >> M. Larabel and his fellows. >> >> Regards, >> Oliver >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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"