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

[Chiron IO]

http://wiki.freebsd.org/DefaultDebuggingKnobs

I am not aware of any linux distribution that comes with debug enabled by default, even on RC releases.

It seems that this approach (debug by default) is welcome to help solve problems that might appear,  but I would be happy if these benchmarks were made without such config (debug) enabled.

On 20/12/2011, at 17:09, Samuel J. Greear wrote:

> 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.
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> 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