2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings
when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}.2c, Adrian 2008/11/24 Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 03:28 PM 11/24/2008, Steven Hartland wrote: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1 >> >> Was interesting until I saw this:- >> >> "However, it's important to reiterate that all three operating systems >> were left in their stock configurations and that no additional tweaking had >> occurred." > > They all seem to be fairly close in the majority of tests. > > In the conclusion they write, "In our LAME MP3 encoding test, Ubuntu 8.10 > was the fastest followed by FreeBSD 7.1".... One needs to consider, the > difference was 2%... Thats hardly anything to get excited about, especially > if that difference can be accounted for by how much priority the scheduler > gives to a userland app vs what the system is doing etc.... > > Also, it would have been interesting to see more multithreaded work loads. > A lot of the apps they tested seemed to be single threaded, doing one job. > > ---Mike > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
