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

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
>