From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 17:30:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B821065672 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E458F8FC1E for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so34888qwb.7 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:30:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=YE4dVA7qxuAlf7LwBJh6T0LHp35NdmClFQq0pxf2T18=; b=wAqZzn9FyxJqDK4LVDiLYRL/G8STzmo6UxVrEZmUTAJ7O/Ui/V+S3QfrY3lyPHMB6V LYy7L2Tu1d8g6wPGu4WcL/UgagDke7H7xfnkEHxVF6CuXP8wG6C2/DShFJOSv34SDO0n SFrD/WWwEk4sLKuGTDTJvCE0o3wrPoVJJGX9o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=P6p3HuLIfu7cFMGjUXSfwSHtxMTAah39RHQbx1l1T5PeF/tPPxar1lc8J+XDFG9qRg Pspa4dUfRT2j8D8lSqsJJtCr5lrVbl1ULk1b93fpC5NKWW0WI2Ur+lKJCyddBaoDX4vZ rjcxfu69/bJoWMwMw2imaGV2nwVpAQrqrVJ+8= Received: by 10.214.45.2 with SMTP id s2mr3944730qas.348.1227632801965; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.215.41.1 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:06:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:06:41 -0500 From: "Adrian Chadd" Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com To: "Mike Tancsa" In-Reply-To: <200811242107.mAOL7JB9058269@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200811242107.mAOL7JB9058269@lava.sentex.ca> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1daefb9b3f2fd7a4 Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:30:31 -0000 2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}. 2c, Adrian 2008/11/24 Mike Tancsa : > At 03:28 PM 11/24/2008, Steven Hartland wrote: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1 >> >> Was interesting until I saw this:- >> >> "However, it's important to reiterate that all three operating systems >> were left in their stock configurations and that no additional tweaking had >> occurred." > > They all seem to be fairly close in the majority of tests. > > In the conclusion they write, "In our LAME MP3 encoding test, Ubuntu 8.10 > was the fastest followed by FreeBSD 7.1".... One needs to consider, the > difference was 2%... Thats hardly anything to get excited about, especially > if that difference can be accounted for by how much priority the scheduler > gives to a userland app vs what the system is doing etc.... > > Also, it would have been interesting to see more multithreaded work loads. > A lot of the apps they tested seemed to be single threaded, doing one job. > > ---Mike > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >