FreeBSD vs Ubuntu - Discuss...

[O. Hartmann]

Martin MATO wrote:
>    István a écrit :
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> have you seen the previous mail about 8.0 and debug stuff?
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> you might have overlooked it.
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> yes UFS is not the fastest, it is FAT16, stick to that :)
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> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, S4mmael [1]<s4mmael at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Since the article says that they left the debugging features on I think
> this has a bit to do with it. Obviously the testers didn't care to read

That's possibly true, but the huge difference in threaded I/O and memory
copy can't be explained by simply leaving debug switches to ON.

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> the
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> documentation, and didn't seem to care to use the same compiler which is
> available in ports, I believe it is safe to chuck this lame benchmark.
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> What about FreeBSD 7.2? All debug featureas are 100% off in this
> version, but test results are the same as in 8.0
> Besides, UFS is known to be not the fastest FS. So, there is no reason
> to be suprised.

UFS2 has its benefits, even over ZFS (less memory, speed in some cases).