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

   The benchmarks themselves are versioned.  So in general most of the
   av= ailable versions of PTS itself should be fine.  PTS can be
   considered = an execution shell that doesn't affect the benchmark
   itself.
   Note th= at you'll download a pile of the benchmarks, build and
   install them.  = Then you run about 49 individual steps.
   Matthew

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   On Dec 20, 2011 5:30 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>= ; wrote:
   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-suit= e.com or freshports.org.
   >
   > Run the benchmark against th= ose used in the article
   >
   >    phoronix-test-su= ite benchmark
   1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37
   >
   > You will be aske= d 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 Mozol= evsky wrote:
   >>>
   >>> Interestingly, while peo= ple seem to be (arguably rightly)
   focused on
   >>> criticising= Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an
   alternative
   >>&= gt; 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 g= oes to show that "doing is hard"
   and
   >>> "criticising is muc= h easier" (yes, I am aware of the irony
   involved in
   >>> maki= ng this statement, but someone has to!)
   >>>
   >>&g= t;
   >>> Cheers,
   >>> Igor M :-)
   >>= 
   >> Unfortunately, M. Larabel is the only one who's performing    benchmarks on
   >> FreeBSD, comparing its performance to the Linu= x-opponents. Adn
   indeed,
   >> there is a lot of criticism, but no= alternative.
   >> I said unfortunately - not offensive - since L= arabel 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 J= anuary/February we get new hardware. One box is
   supposed to do
   >&g= t; 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, partiall= y GPU,
   but
   >> massively memory hungry (96 to 128 GB RAM is need= ed).
   >> What I can offer is, since I will also work on that mac= hine 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 h= omes, so both systems can perform on a
   most
   >> recent ZFS. I'm = new to Linux, not a BSD guru, nor I'm a
   professional
   >> program= mer/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-s= cientific
   application.
   >>
   >> I would appreciate to = see some of the developers and/or FreeBSD
   hackers
   >> to help Ph= oronix setting up a proper testenvironment instead of
   bashing
   >>= ; M. Larabel and his fellows.
   >>
   >> Regards,
   = >> Oliver
   >>
   >
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