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

[Michael Larabel]

On 12/15/2011 05:02 AM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Larabel" 
> <michael.larabel at phoronix.com>
>
>>
>> I was the on that carried out the testing and know that it was on the 
>> same system.
>>
>> All of the testing, including the system tables, is fully automated. 
>> Under FreeBSD sometimes the parsing of some component strings isn't 
>> as nice as Linux and other supported operating systems by the 
>> Phoronix Test Suite. For the BSD motherboard string parsing it's 
>> grabbing hw.vendor/hw.product from sysctl. Is there a better place to 
>> read the motherboard DMI information from?
>
> dmidecode may provide better info?
>
>    Regards
>    Steve

dmidecode is used on Linux for parsing some of the hardware information. 
I think I looked at using it for BSD too, but offhand I don't recall 
what the problem was. I'll check into it again with the latest release 
when time allows.

Michael

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