Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:37:14 +0200 From: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Performance of Java on FBSD vs. others... Message-ID: <20061110203714.GA89006@ace.b020.ceid.upatras.gr>
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Hi all. I've spent the last week or so running the exact same Java code on the exact same hardware, under different OSs. The code i'm running is heavily cpu-bound (no i/o other than light logging), uses a lot of memory (~1G), and does not rely on threading libraries (i.e. the program creates two threads when it starts and that's all about it). I'm running a small and a large version of the program (wrt memory requirements and run-time). The average execution time for the small version goes from ~200'' under win32, to ~220'' under linux, and to ~800'' under freebsd. For the large version, the numbers are ~1600'' for win32, ~1800'' for linux, and ~4700'' for freebsd. This is all on a 1.7GHz Pentium-M laptop with 1G RAM (dmesg at http://ntarmos.dyndns.org/Computers/dmesgs/ace.dmesg), running -current as of Sep 29. The JDKs tested are diablo-jdk15 (1.5.0.07.01) and sun-jdk15 (1.5.0p6) for FreeBSD, and sun-jdk15 (1.5.0_07) for linux and win32. Does anybody else see such a performance drop across OSs? Is there some specific (known) reason why freebsd lags behind the other two OSs by this 3x-4x factor? Any pointers as to some (sysctl or other) knob I've missed? Thanks in advance. \n\n
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