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

[Michael Larabel]

On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote:
> Am 15.12.2011, 08:32 Uhr, schrieb O. Hartmann 
> <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
>
>> Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today:
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzA
>>
>> It may be worth to discuss the sad performance of FBSD in some parts of
>> the benchmark. A difference of a factor 10 or 100 is simply far beyond
>> disapointing, it is more than inacceptable and by just reading those
>> benchmarks, I'd like to drop thinking of using FreeBSD even as a backend
>> server in scientific and business environments. In detail, some of the
>> SciMark benches look disappointing.
>
> Why SciMark?
>
> SciMark FreeBSD : Oracle, Mflops
>
> Composite       884.79 :  844.03 (Faster: FreeBSD)
> FFT             236.17 :  213.65 (Faster: FreeBSD)
> Jacobi          970.76 :  974.84 (Faster: Oracle)
> Monte Carlo     443.00 :  246.27 (Faster: FreeBSD)
> Sparse Matrix  1213.64 : 1228.22 (Faster: Oracle)
> Dense LU       1560.39 : 1557.18    (Faster: FreeBSD)
>
>
> The threaded I/O results (Oracle outperforms FreeBSD by x10 on one, by 
> x100 on another test)
> or the disc TPS ( 486 : 3526 ) sure look worse and are worth looking 
> into.
>
>
> Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware, FWIW.
> And with different filesystems, different compilers, different GUIs...
>
>

No, the same hardware was used for each OS.

In terms of the software, the stock software stack for each OS was used.

-- Michael


>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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