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

[Samuel J. Greear]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Chiron IO <io.chir0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
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> I have a question about these benchmarks.
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> Why worry about that if the CURRENT comes with debug enabled by default?
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> http://joaobarros.blogspot.com/2005/07/freebsd-how-to-turn-off-debug-options.html
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In the real world problems happen and someone has to be able to, in some
fashion, identify and resolve those problems. As such, shipping FreeBSD
releases with INVARIANTS disabled is a mistake and any benchmarks done
without INVARIANTS enabled will fail to reflect most reasonable real world
use-cases.

Although these benchmarks cannot stand on their own merits for many
reasons, I do not see how any benchmark is automatically invalidated by
using the default development configuration.

Sam