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

[Tony McC]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:32:48 +0100
"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 may be worth to discuss the sad performance of FBSD in some parts
> of the benchmark. A difference of a factor 10 or 100 is simply far
> beyond disapointing, it is more than inacceptable and by just reading
> those benchmarks, I'd like to drop thinking of using FreeBSD even as
> a backend server in scientific and business environments. In detail,
> some of the SciMark benches look disappointing. The overall image
> can't help over the fact that in C-Ray FreeBSD is better performing.
> 
> From the compiler, I'd like say there couldn't be a drop of more than
> 10
> - 15% in performance - but not 10 or 100 times.
> 
> I'm just thinking about the discussion of SCHED_ULE and all the saur
> spots we discussed when I stumbled over the test.
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> 

I suggest always ignoring benchmarks. They are like reading the
astrology column in a tabloid newspaper.  Instead, try FreeBSD for your
work.  Is it fast enough?  Surely that is all you need to know. FreeBSD
is quite fast enough for my needs and I am simply more productive using
it than when I use any other operating system.  That is partly to do
with my familiarity with my setup, which I have customised the way I
want.  That is something that no benchmark can allow for.

Tony