Performance of Java on FreeBSD vs. Linux and others

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Mon Aug 11 10:32:10 UTC 2008


Maybe it helps to mail Kris Kennaway directly. I don't know if he is on  
this list.

Ronald.

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:11:31 +0200, Sharkie <shark.fin.soup at mac.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> There was no follow up to this question.
>
> Basically, I would like to know the context of this graph and its  
> associated information and parameters.
>
> I tried searching on Google and nothing came up.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Sharkie wrote:
>
>> Well I am decided if these numbers are accurate. But, is there an  
>> article discussing these? I have only seen articles discussing his  
>> MySQL results.
>>
>> Now these numbers are for FreeBSD 8.0. I wonder how 7.0 will perform.
>>
>> It would be great if he also documents how he compiles and builds his  
>> Java.
>>
>> I wonder why this results haven't made headlines.
>>
>> Shark
>> On Aug 7, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Beastie wrote:
>>
>>>> Forgive me for bringing up this issue again. I tried searching in the
>>>> archive, and I could only find discussions from late 2006. Now that
>>>> FreeBSD 7.0 is out and we have a new scheduler, can someone comment on
>>>> performance of Java on FreeBSD vs. Linux and others? I tried following
>>>> the old thread and I believe it was inconclusive rather than that
>>>> FreeBSD is definitely slower. Yet, there was an argument on how much
>>>> slower. I would really like to know this information because I will be
>>>> doing heavy number crunching in Java. A 20% performance gain could
>>>> save me 1-2 day at a time.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Shark
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> About java performance.
>>> May be this nubers will help to decide. The results of java SPEC tests
>>> done by Kris Kennaway early this year:
>>>
>>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/specjava.png
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