Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-27 Thread Joel Dahl
Ivan Voras skrev: O. Hartmann wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: ... OTOH if the goal is to measure "operating system" performance, this must also include the compiler, libraries and all. (for example, what does Solaris default to nowadays? I think it ships with gcc but not as default). The hold on gcc

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Roman Divacky
> They can work on LLVM support and integration. Apple is putting a lot > of effort into both llvm-gcc and clang. From the outside, it looks like > they consider that their future. As such, it may well be ours. I am doing some work on llvm+clang, it's still not very mature but looks very promis

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:03:45PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > O. Hartmann wrote: > > Ivan Voras wrote: > > ... > > > >> > >> OTOH if the goal is to measure "operating system" performance, this > >> must also include the compiler, libraries and all. (for example, what > >> does Solaris default to n

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
O. Hartmann wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > ... > >> >> OTOH if the goal is to measure "operating system" performance, this >> must also include the compiler, libraries and all. (for example, what >> does Solaris default to nowadays? I think it ships with gcc but not as >> default). The hold on gcc 4

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread O. Hartmann
Ivan Voras wrote: ... OTOH if the goal is to measure "operating system" performance, this must also include the compiler, libraries and all. (for example, what does Solaris default to nowadays? I think it ships with gcc but not as default). The hold on gcc 4.3 in FreeBSD is, after all, politica

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:55:39 +0100): 2008/11/26 Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you want to test OS performance and use Java programs in there to do so, you would use the same Java version, wouldn't you? They didn't. Linux: 1.6.0_0-b12

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/11/26 Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you want to test OS performance and use Java programs in there to do so, > you would use the same Java version, wouldn't you? They didn't. Linux: 1.6.0_0-b12 Solaris: 1.6.0_10-b33 FreeBSD: 1.6.0_07-b02 Since system have their local patches

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Adrian Chadd wrote: 2% may not sound like a lot but it starts becoming measurable savings when the number of boxes involved is ${LARGE}. 2c, Yeah, but the margin for error in these tests is undoubtedly > 2%. AFAICS this benchmark shows that Freebsd is "up there" with these guys - slower o

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:46:35 +0100): 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

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: 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

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-24 Thread Kip Macy
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Phil Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry thats one of the worst pieces of "journalism" I've ever > encountered. Benchmarks useless ( single threaded ), no useful > analysis, not even any speculation ( informed or otherwise ). It is representative. This stan

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-24 Thread Phil Brennan
Sorry thats one of the worst pieces of "journalism" I've ever encountered. Benchmarks useless ( single threaded ), no useful analysis, not even any speculation ( informed or otherwise ). On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:28:11PM -, 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

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
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 twe

FreeBSD 7.1 BETA 2 vs Opensolaris vs Ubuntu performance

2008-11-24 Thread Steven Hartland
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." I kernel debugging stuff s