Re: [PATCH] pmcannotate tool

2008-11-25 Thread gnn
At Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:02:22 +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: > > pmcannotate is a tool that prints out sources of a tool (in C or > assembly) with inlined profiling informations retrieved by a prior > pmcstat analysis. > If compared with things like callgraph generation, it prints out > profiling on a p

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/11/25 Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/11/25 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> I believe most of the synthetic numbers (mp3 encoding etc.) difference >>> comes from the different version of gcc the different OS uses... >> >> You're very likely right. Ubuntu 8.10 has gcc 4.3.x - it

Re: hwpmc granularity and 6.4 network performance

2008-11-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
A few things! * Since you've changed two things - hwpmc _AND_ the kernel version - you can't easily conclude which one (if any!) has any influence on Giant showing up in your top output. I suggest recompiling without hwpmc and seeing if the behaviour changes. * The gprof utility expects something

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
2008/11/25 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I believe most of the synthetic numbers (mp3 encoding etc.) difference >> comes from the different version of gcc the different OS uses... > > You're very likely right. Ubuntu 8.10 has gcc 4.3.x - it could make for > the small difference in gzip and 7z

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Roman Divacky wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:08:27PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Steven Hartland wrote: >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1 >>> >>> Was interesting until I saw this:- >>> >> The results seem well within expectations, for the sort of ben

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Roman Divacky
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:08:27PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1 > > > > Was interesting until I saw this:- > > > > The results seem well within expectations, for the sort of benchmarks > they did:

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
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&

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Adrian Chadd
2008/11/25 Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 12:06 PM 11/25/2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> 2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings >> when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}. > > True, but then again is there such a thing as a synthetic benchmark that > woul

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:06 PM 11/25/2008, Adrian Chadd wrote: 2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}. True, but then again is there such a thing as a synthetic benchmark that would have a margin of error less than 2% while representing

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Ivan Voras
Steven Hartland wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=os_threeway_2008&num=1 > > Was interesting until I saw this:- > The results seem well within expectations, for the sort of benchmarks they did: there is little difference between the systems. Depending on the details of

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-25 Thread Liudas Bakšys
Hello, I did some calculations to take into account not only best result, but how much it is better. I used following formulas: If more is better then result/max(ubuntu, opensolaris, freebsd) If less is better then min(ubuntu, opensolaris, freebsd)/ result Results in ph