Benchmarks results for FreeBSD 11

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Tue Aug 23 11:02:05 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:02:15PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:14:23PM +0200, Lars Engels wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:48:46AM +0200, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> > > Il 2016-08-21 08:45 Erich Dollansky ha scritto:
> > > 
> > > > I am sure that some know of this site:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2bsd-7linux-bench&num=4
> > > > 
> > > > I wonder about the results for FreeBSD. As I do not have 11 on my 
> > > > machines, a stupid question. Are there still some debugging aids 
> > > > enabled in 11?   
> > > > They're off in those versions, but did note compiler (and compiler
> > > > args) differences between within most tests (See attachments) as you
> > > > mentioned.
> > >  the benchmark then compares the off-the-shelve distributions. 
> > > 
> > > Excuse me, as a casual reader of the list, I don't get this "critique". 
> > > 
> > > I never recompile my installations, I just use them from the
> > > installation CD (as probably 90% of the rest of the world), so I don't
> > > get what is wrong with the approach of comparing an out-of-the-box
> > > FreeBSD 11 with an out-of-the-box Ubuntu whatever. 
> > > 
> > > If FreeBSD 11 "out-the-box" performs slow because the standard compilers
> > > options aren't good it's not a problem with the benchmarking platform
> > > but with the default CD compiling options. 
> > > 
> > > Am I getting it wrong? 
> > 
> > The problem here is that Phoronix took a Beta version of FreeBSD 11.
> > Beta versions have a lot of debugging (malloc, invariants, witness)
> > options enabled which make it significantly slower than release
> > versions. This is even obviously when you run a Beta as a desktop. It
> > just feels much slower.
> 
> No.
> All debugs in amd64 is off at time of BETA.

Ok, then FreeBSD is just slower...
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