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

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:29:29 -0800
Is there a specific version of the test suite that should be used, to
compare against the published results?


Adrian

On 20 December 2011 17:18, Matthew Tippett <matthew_at_phoronix.com> wrote:
> For such a system, the greatest immediate value would be to attempt to
> reproduce the benchmarks in question.
>
> Install PTS from www.phoronix-test-suite.com or freshports.org.
>
> Run the benchmark against those used in the article
>
>    phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37
>
> You will be asked to push the comparison up to openbenchmarking at the end.
>
> Matthew
>
>
> On 12/20/2011 01:39 PM, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>
>> On 12/20/11 21:20, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>>>
>>> Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on
>>> criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative
>>> benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to
>>> benchmark real world performance, equally, nobody has offered any
>>> numbers in relation to, for example, HTTP or SMTP, or any other "real
>>> world"-application torture tests done on the aforementioned two
>>> platforms... IMO, this just goes to show that "doing is hard" and
>>> "criticising is much easier" (yes, I am aware of the irony involved in
>>> making this statement, but someone has to!)
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Igor M :-)
>>
>> Unfortunately, M. Larabel is the only one who's performing benchmarks on
>> FreeBSD, comparing its performance to the Linux-opponents. Adn indeed,
>> there is a lot of criticism, but no alternative.
>> I said unfortunately - not offensive - since Larabel and Phoronix are
>> sadly the only ones who do actually such bechmarking.
>>
>> It would be much more nicer and kind to support those people.
>>
>> Well, in January/February we get new hardware. One box is supposed to do
>> number crunching via 12 cores and a TESLA GPU. My colleague is
>> developing a high parallelized peice of software for satellite data
>> transformation. The software package is CPU bound, partially GPU, but
>> massively memory hungry (96 to 128 GB RAM is needed).
>> What I can offer is, since I will also work on that machine and I've
>> free hand to administer, in the spare time of doing my PhD, installing
>> FreeBSD 9.0/10.0 besides SuSe Linux and looking forward having one ZFS
>> data storage drive for homes, so both systems can perform on a most
>> recent ZFS. I'm new to Linux, not a BSD guru, nor I'm a professional
>> programmer/developer. My skills are sufficient for the daily scientific
>> work. So, without pressure, I'm willing to perform some HPC benchmarks
>> under advice if the day comes and those interested in bare numbers of
>> FreeBSD vs. Linux performance with a real-world-scientific application.
>>
>> I would appreciate to see some of the developers and/or FreeBSD hackers
>> to help Phoronix setting up a proper testenvironment instead of bashing
>> M. Larabel and his fellows.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oliver
>>
>
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