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

From: Alex Kuster <vertexSymphony_at_zoho.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:06:59 -0300
On 12/16/2011 02:41, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, O. Hartmann
> <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de>  wrote:
>> Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today:
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzA
>>
> it might be worth highlighting that despite Oracle Linux 6.1 Server is
> using a kernel + compiler almost 2 years old, it still manages to
> out-perform the bleeding edge FreeBSD :-)
>
> Now, from what I've read so far in this thread, it seems that a lot of
> people are still in abnegation...
>
> my 0.2c,
>   - Arnaud

This smells like flamebait ...
Because everyone with a little love or knowledge about benchmarking 
would realize that the benchmark is all wrong, and not only that ... 
they say that the benchmark tests defaults and ZFS, afaik is far from 
being a default.
Received on Fri Dec 16 2011 - 05:24:43 UTC

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