Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, O. Hartmann
> <[email protected]> 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 :-)
> 
serenity# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]

serenity# uname -r
9.0-RC3

> 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
>>
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