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

[O. Hartmann]

On 12/19/11 09:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Samuel.
> You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47:
> 
>> Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are
>> similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time
>> should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer further evaluating this
>> garbage. (Yes, I have been down this rabbit hole).
>   Here is one problem: we have choice from three items:
> 
> (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by "fixing" FreeBSD
> 
> (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by "fixing" Phoronix
> (communication with them, convincing, that they benchamrks are unfare
> / meaningless, ets)
> 
> (3) Lose [potential] userbase.
> 
>   You know, that these benchmarks are bad. I know. But potential (and
>  even some current!) user doesn't. And it seems, that these benchmarks
>  become popular over Internet.
> 
 +1

It is not about a faky way to let a specific OS look good by any means.
I'M afraid of (3), which also implies pushing more towards beeing
meaningless and not anymore a alternative with a unique, remarkable
criteria to be choosen as __the__ operating system of the first choice
for several purposes. By the way, how such a development could look
alaike is very clear when it comes to GPGPU/HPC, highly related to the
availability of proper graphics card drivers, X11 development and the
necessary libraries, APIs and even compilers.

None of those "professionals" out here, none of those pushing the
eyewhitness of bad performance into very deep-insight-talks about what
could cause the problem has obviously ever negotiated with people of the
"upper floor" when it comes to the choice of the OS.
Within my department, the *BSD aren't even considered an option, even if
they would perform best for the specified purpose (which, I regeret,
is a shrinking basis now since also Linux will have ZFS).

Sometimes I feel like Don Quixote, fighting against windmills. Sorry
having brought up this thread and I beg for pardon for putting another
scrtach into the autoerotic world of the "core".

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