Re: Ideas for 2nd Fefe benchmarks?

In article <[email protected]>,
	Hubert Feyrer <[email protected]> writes:
> Reading Fefe's (german language) weblog[1] he writes:
> 
>    ``I'm working on new benchmarks similar to my old ones[2], but I want to
>    measure more this time. I have taken about 30GB of image data from a
>    customer's webserver, and logged about 50.000 web requests, and wanted
>    to replay them as fast as possibl. To measure the filesystem I want to
>    keep 10% of the 30GB images seperately, and then use tar to unpack and
>    measure. But the tests so far are very negative for BSD (10 minutes
>    unpacking on Linux with ext3 against 26 minutes under FreeBSD 6 with
>    UFS2. I'm therefore looking for benchmark ideas in this category (so not
>    "install postgres and shove in the following selects"), which are
>    friendly to BSD and unfriendly to Linux. There has to be something?!
>    Please mail your hints to me!''
> 
> Given the last round of benchmarks and they improvements that were made to 
> NetBSD after them, this sounds very interesting. Ideas? What is it that 
> NetBSD can do better than Linux (and FreeBSD :-).

Wouldn't it be much more interesting to focus on what we do worse than
Linux (e.g. the FS part in the above) and fix that?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/