Guys, I have a question about these benchmarks. Why worry about that if the CURRENT comes with debug enabled by default? http://joaobarros.blogspot.com/2005/07/freebsd-how-to-turn-off-debug-options.html On 19/12/2011, at 22:28, Petro Rossini wrote: > Hi all, > > just a thought here: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel_at_digsys.bg> wrote: >>> As were told, Phoronix used "default" setup, not tuned. >> Not really. They created some weird test environment, at least for FreeBSD >> -- who knows, possibly for Linux as well. >> >> For example, ZFS is by no means a default file system in FreeBSD. You need >> to go trough manual steps, to enable it, to build the pool, filesystems etc. > > .. > > Of course the benchmark setup and procedure is strange but.. > > it could be improved, I think. > > Have a good collection of tuning parameters for "popular cases", > advertised properly so it gets hard "to miss them". > > I am a sysadmin and, over the years, I had to run file servers, > database servers, web servers, tomcats... > > Well, most of the time I set it up and "it just works" because the > system in question is not maxed out, not even close to it. > > But if I want to squeeze the last 20% out of it googling starts, and > here and there I find hints how to tune the OS, the file system, what > scheduler to use etc. > > It would be great to have a set of case studies at hand, e.g. under > the /usr/share/examples directory, that describes tweaks to have a > performing postgresql server, or mysql, or apache or a desktop or.. > > Things I find, for example, in the BSD Magazine. > > Maybe benchmarks become more meaningful then.. > > A general remark for people doing benchmarks for comparison: you need > a well-informed system engineer for the systems you compare. So, if > you compare a Linux system with FreeBSD, have two experienced admins > that know their OS well. > > Regards > Peter > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Tue Dec 20 2011 - 10:50:44 UTC
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