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

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what can be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additional people which are willing to improve it.
>>> 
>>> This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other tuning sources are welcome too.
>>> 
>>> Every FreeBSD dev with a wiki account can hand out write access to the wiki. The benchmark page gives contributor-access. If someone wants write access create a FirstnameLastname account and ask here for contributor-access.
>>> 
>>> Don't worry if you think your english is not good enough, even some one-word notes can help (and _my_ english got already corrected by other people on the benchmark page).
>>> 
>>> Bye,
>>> Alexander.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Nice to see movement ;-)
>> 
>> But there seems something unclear:
>> 
>> man make.conf(5) says, that  MALLOC_PRODUCTION is a knob set in
>> /etc/make.conf.
>> The WiJi says, MALLOC_PRODUCTION is to be set in /etc/src.conf.
>> 
>> What's right and what's wrong now?
> 
> I can say with certainty that this value belongs in /etc/make.conf
> (on RELENG_8 and earlier at least).
> 
> src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk has no framework for MK_MALLOC_PRODUCTION,
> so, this is definitely a make.conf variable.

Take the advice in tuning(7) with a grain of salt because a number of suggestions are really outdated. I know because I filed a PR last night after I saw how out of synch some of the defaults it claimed were with reality on 9.x+. And I know other suggestions in the manpage are dated as well ;/.
Thanks,
-Garrett