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

2012-01-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM,   wrote: >> Thanks. >> >> My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs the benchmark to >> ensure expected behaviour. >> > Why should yo

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

2012-01-04 Thread matthew
Thanks for the comment Arnaud. For comparative benchmarking on [1]Phoronix.com, Michael inva= riable leaves it in the default configuration 'in the way the developers or= vendor wanted it for production'. This is by rule. However, i= nvariable the community or vendor for platfor

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

2012-01-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM, wrote: > Thanks. > > My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs the benchmark to > ensure expected behaviour. > Why should you have to tune anything ? Did you tune the Oracle Server install ? If not, you should not have to t

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

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Dec-24 15:49:00 +0100, "O. Hartmann" wrote: >On 12/23/11 12:38, Daniel Kalchev wrote: >> Here is now it works: >> >> If you see an problem and have a solution: go fix it. Many will be >> grateful. >> If you can't fix it, but have an idea how to fix it, share it. May will >> be grateful.

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

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 23 Dec 2011 12:25, "O. Hartmann" wrote: > > Look at Steve Kargls problem. He investigated a SCHED_ULE problem in a > way that is far beyond enough! He gave tests, insights of his setup, bad > performance compared to SCHED_4BSD and what happend? We are still stuck > with this problem and more an

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

2011-12-28 Thread O. Hartmann
Am 12/28/11 15:24, schrieb Alexander Leidinger: > > Hi, > > you assume in your comment that development time "wasted" in the > linuxulator is time lost for other development. This assumption could be > valid for a commercially developed OS, but is wrong for FreeBSD. I tell > this as a person who

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

2011-12-24 Thread Paul Pathiakis
lem would be tracked down, maybe a benchmark issue would be tracked down.  Maybe people will stop using RC's versus releases, I don't know.  I really don't care.  Just please stop with finger pointing and being disgruntled and indignant.  FOCUS!! I'd love to say something

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

2011-12-24 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/23/11 12:38, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > On 23.12.11 12:48, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Look at Steve Kargls problem. He investigated a SCHED_ULE problem in a >> way that is far beyond enough! He gave tests, insights of his setup, >> bad performance compared to SCHED_4BSD and what happend? We are

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

2011-12-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/12/2011 20:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: >> On 23/12/2011 02:56, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> There is a wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning which is >> currently more or less tuning(7) with some annotations, the idea being >> to

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

2011-12-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a >>>>> look what can be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some >>>>> additional people which are willing to improve it. >>>>> >>>>> This is only part of the problem. A tun

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

2011-12-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
SD. If you're able to setup KTR and drive it + schedgraph (just like Steve has) and run this on a workload that is _repeatedly_ broken for you, then you're immediately going to have a better chance at getting it fixed. Bonus points if you can run the same benchmark on 4BSD and ULE, report

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

2011-12-23 Thread Adrian Chadd
SD. If you're able to setup KTR and drive it + schedgraph (just like Steve has) and run this on a workload that is _repeatedly_ broken for you, then you're immediately going to have a better chance at getting it fixed. Bonus points if you can run the same benchmark on 4BSD and ULE, report

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
reebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what >> can >> be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additional people >> which are willing to improve it. >>>>> >>>>> This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which

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

2011-12-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
proved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additional people > which are willing to improve it. > > > > > > > > This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which > could be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any > v

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
ed on $COMPILER. I want that there is a reasonable quality. And for me quality is not only stability, but also speed. You can always have faster algorithm if it is not necessary to produce the right answer. But if you don't tweak, you get a fair result in a benchmark. This is what you wi

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

2011-12-23 Thread Mark Linimon
I have slightly reordered your email in my reply, in order to put the most important item last. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:01:33PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > I'm still with the system, although I desperately need scientific grade > compilers or GPGPU support. Your use-case, while valid, is clear

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
ystem for speed, > when it's clear that default setting does not make any sense. People > will use default settings, because they trust developers that they > thought about balanced stability, security and performance. > >> FreeBSD has safe default. > > This is what I am

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

2011-12-23 Thread John Baldwin
; > > This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other tuning sources are welcome too. > > > > > > Ever

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

2011-12-23 Thread Martin Sugioarto
, when it's clear that default setting does not make any sense. People will use default settings, because they trust developers that they thought about balanced stability, security and performance. > FreeBSD has safe default. This is what I am talking about. Don't complain that the benchmar

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

2011-12-23 Thread Tony McC
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:05:38 +0100 "O. Hartmann" wrote: > Yes, and it is legitime to question that and bring pro and contra for > that decission. But since "FreeBSD" is obviously a small club of > people sitting like a duck on eggs (and, by the way, not their own > genuine invented eggs, more or

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

2011-12-23 Thread Alexander Best
> > >When FreeBSD has a bad default setup, there must be a reason for that. > >Tell me this reason and show me that it's justified in form of some > >other benchmark. > > FreeBSD has safe default. It is supposed to work out of the box on > whatever hardware

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 23.12.11 12:48, O. Hartmann wrote: Look at Steve Kargls problem. He investigated a SCHED_ULE problem in a way that is far beyond enough! He gave tests, insights of his setup, bad performance compared to SCHED_4BSD and what happend? We are still stuck with this problem and more and more peo

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
for the OS is different, you might feel more > comfortable in choosing another OS, probably a commercial OS with > support from the vendor. This is nonesense, you know that, regarding to my case. > >> If a benchmark reveals some severe weak points in FreeBSD and I have >> to r

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

2011-12-23 Thread O. Hartmann
marks are very useful. But not if any real fault of the OS is >> excused by a faulty becnhmarking. > > Hi, > > it is important for the project to be known and I think that the > benchmarks made by Phoronix help FreeBSD to gain popularity, even they > look bad sometim

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
he FreeBSD Linux emulation. Unchanged. There is one problem here though, the emulation is still 32 bit. When FreeBSD has a bad default setup, there must be a reason for that. Tell me this reason and show me that it's justified in form of some other benchmark. FreeBSD has safe default. It

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

2011-12-23 Thread Daniel Kalchev
ial OS with support from the vendor. If a benchmark reveals some severe weak points in FreeBSD and I have to read about obscure tweaks of non documented sysctl, then this OS would be a no-go if I was a manager to make decissions. Luckily, managers do not care about knobs or how diffic

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

2011-12-23 Thread Martin Sugioarto
is > excused by a faulty becnhmarking. Hi, it is important for the project to be known and I think that the benchmarks made by Phoronix help FreeBSD to gain popularity, even they look bad sometimes. Furthermore, to make a benchmark is a lot of work and the results are useful, because at the end someone w

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

2011-12-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
ge is far from perfect and needs some >>>> additional people which are willing to improve it. >>>> >>>> This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could >>>> be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any >>

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

2011-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
improve it. >>> >>> This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could >>> be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? >>> A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other >>

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 17:56, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Guys, girls, fuzzy creatures, > > This is by far the best example of a constructive email in this entire thread. Agreed! > > If people would like to help, Erik here is exactly the kind of person > with exactly the kind of software that needs a hand. > >

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 10:56, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchev wrote: [...] >> Any 'benchmark' has a goal. You first define the goal and then measure how >> different contenders achieve it. Reaching the goal may have several >> measurable metr

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
ade linux >>> to 4.2.1, then that will tell me nothing about FreeBSD vs Linux. >> The gcc version distributed with FreeBSD was chosen for license reasons, >> not for technical reasons. If you are OK with installing a GPLv3 >> licensed compiler on your systems, then just do i

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

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
age in the wiki - which could > > be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? > > A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other > > tuning sources are welcome too. > > > > Every FreeBSD dev with a wiki account can

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

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
ook what can be > improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additional people which > are willing to improve it. > > This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could be > referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? A &g

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

2011-12-22 Thread Matthew Tippett
(Resending - hopefully without horrific escaping somewhere upstream). Let me suggest an alternative. Within the Phoronix Test Suite ecosystem, we have a continious integration/validation system called Phoromatic (http://www.phoromatic.com/). We have a brief theory of operation on it captured

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

2011-12-22 Thread matthew
Let me suggest an alternative. = Within the Phoronix Test Suite ecosystem, we have a continious = integration/validation system called Phoromatic ([1]http://www.phoromatic.c= om/). We have a brief theory of operation on it captured = [2]https://docs.google.

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

2011-12-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Guys, girls, fuzzy creatures, This is by far the best example of a constructive email in this entire thread. If people would like to help, Erik here is exactly the kind of person with exactly the kind of software that needs a hand. I think enough philosophizing has been done - now we have questi

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

2011-12-22 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Den 21/12/2011 kl. 19.48 skrev Alexander Leidinger: > And related to the subject: wasn't it you who developed the automatic > benchmarking stuff? If yes, why not make it available? If you don't have he > resources, I offer my help to make it available somewhere. Yes, that's me. I'm mostly out o

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

2011-12-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
additional people which are willing to improve it. This is only part of the problem. A tuning page in the wiki - which could be referenced from the benchmark page - would be great too. Any volunteers? A first step would be to take he tuning-man-page and wikify it. Other tuning sources are welcome too

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

2011-12-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I suggest to add the content to the wiki, improve it (together with other people)  and then  to fix the man-page with the result. If you want write access to the wiki just register with FirstnameLastname and tell me or any other FreeBSD comitter with wiki access about it so that we can han

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

2011-12-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, feel free to add an entry to the ideas list in the wiki, it is prominently linked in the top current links section. If you don't have access and don't want to register, just provide a nice text in the style of the ideas page and someone can add it. And related to the subject: wasn't it you

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

2011-12-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/12/2011 16:45, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 21/12/2011 15:29, Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> Den 21/12/2011 kl. 15.20 skrev Randy Schultz: >> >>> I agree whole-heartedly. I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't trying to say >>> most >>> SA's never tune, only that from watching other SA's over the yea

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

2011-12-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/12/2011 15:29, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 21/12/2011 kl. 15.20 skrev Randy Schultz: > >> I agree whole-heartedly. I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't trying to say >> most >> SA's never tune, only that from watching other SA's over the years, little >> tuning is done. > As a casual SA, I o

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

2011-12-21 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Den 21/12/2011 kl. 15.20 skrev Randy Schultz: > I agree whole-heartedly. I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't trying to say most > SA's never tune, only that from watching other SA's over the years, little > tuning is done. As a casual SA, I often find I'm fumbling around in the dark to find out i

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

2011-12-21 Thread Randy Schultz
ioned - what ever you do, try it yourself in your environment. Do whatever amount of tuning you do (or don't do) and try it. In our environment, fbsd stomps linux for a mail relay. OTOH linux's iSCSI initiator stomps fbsd's. Heh, what would be really cool even if only from an acad

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

2011-12-21 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Tom Evans" I think that a good SA will at least consider how drives are arranged. We don't just slap ZFS on a single disk and expect magic to happen, we consider how write heavy a system will be and consider a dedicated ZIL, we consider what proportion of fi

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

2011-12-21 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Randy Schultz wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Matthew Tippett spaketh thusly: > > -}There are still possible issues with those benchmarks.  The Xeon has known > -}problems scaling from 6 to 12 cores (well enabling the hyperthreading), so > you > -}may find that some

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

2011-12-21 Thread Randy Schultz
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Matthew Tippett spaketh thusly: -}There are still possible issues with those benchmarks. The Xeon has known -}problems scaling from 6 to 12 cores (well enabling the hyperthreading), so you -}may find that some platforms are penalized in performance if HT is turned on. -}See t

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

2011-12-21 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 03:29:25PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > This also interested me: > > * Linux system crashed > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-11/msg8.html > > * OpenIndiana system crashed same way as Linux system > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchiv

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

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Larabel
For such a system, the greatest immediate value would be to attempt to reproduce the benchmarks in question. Install PTS from www.phoronix-test-suite.com or freshports.org. Run the benchmark against those used in the article phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 You will be ask

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

2011-12-20 Thread matthew
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

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

2011-12-20 Thread Adrian Chadd
Install PTS from www.phoronix-test-suite.com or freshports.org. > > Run the benchmark against those used in the article > >    phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 > > You will be asked to push the comparison up to openbenchmarking at the end. > > Mat

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

2011-12-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
For such a system, the greatest immediate value would be to attempt to reproduce the benchmarks in question. Install PTS from www.phoronix-test-suite.com or freshports.org. Run the benchmark against those used in the article phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 You will

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

2011-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
estingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on >>>> criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative >>>> benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to >>>> benchmark real world performance,

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

2011-12-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Fly, Linux > > and Solaris. Steps to reproduce these benchmarks provided. > > > > Sam > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Igor Mozolevsky > > wrote: > > > >> Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on > >>

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

2011-12-20 Thread Matthew Tippett
iours. Benchmarking is a mucky business.. Note that the benchmarks with Phoronix test suite are repeatable, once installed, you can just run "./phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37" to repeat (as close as the system allows) the benchmarks that started this thread. Is

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

2011-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
t; Sam > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > >> Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on >> criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative >> benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly)

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

2011-12-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
estingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on > criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative > benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to > benchmark real world performance, equally, nobody has offered any > nu

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

2011-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/20/11 21:20, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on > criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative > benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to > benchmark real world per

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

2011-12-20 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
Interestingly, while people seem to be (arguably rightly) focused on criticising Phoronix's benchmarking, nobody has offered an alternative benchmark; and while (again, arguably rightly) it is important to benchmark real world performance, equally, nobody has offered any numbers in relati

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

2011-12-20 Thread Sami Halabi
Hi, I'm not sure i trust allbsd.org, such as their site has last updated at 2005. Sami On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, O. Hartmann < ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/20/11 10:01, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow > wrote: > >> Fr

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

2011-12-20 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/20/11 10:01, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow > wrote: >> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you >> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just >> found recently (my shame of cou

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

2011-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >        Release engineering for FreeBSD produces SHA256 checksums for all > official releases. AFAIK though they're only in the announcement emails and > not stored anywhere else. >        I can't speak for OpenBSD's release process. > Tha

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

2011-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source > says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter where I get my images > from. Checksums compared to what? How would you know what the correct checksum

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

2011-12-20 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you > need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just > found recently (my shame of course) in mail list that there is service ( > pub.allbs

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

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> As long as I have reliable checksums that match the what the upstream source >> says is the real thing, it doesn't practically matter where I get my images >> from. > > Check

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

2011-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow > wrote: >> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, you >> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just >> found recently (my s

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

2011-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
kless kernel, better NUMA architecture support, etc). And the list goes on and on. The point is that while some of the suggestions have been good on how to write good benchmarks (someone suggested a medium math and a worker benchmark set of tests, which I think was on the right track), a lot o

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

2011-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
[removed freebsd-current and freebsd-stable] On 19/12/2011 13:16, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: For example, few checkboxes with common sysctl tuning would be perfect, even if they would be marked as "Experimental", or not recommended. I'm thinking it's better way to make something in one place (lik

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

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
IMHO, no offence, as always. As were told, Phoronix used "default" setup, not tuned. So? Is average user will tune it after setup? No, he'll get same defaults, and would expect same performance as in tests, and he probably get it. The problem of FreeBSD is not it's default settings, some kind of v

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

2011-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
gt; both platforms and reported only the read results. If you dig down >> into the actual results, >> http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 -- you will >> see two Blogbench numbers, one for read and another for write. These >> were both taken from the same

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

2011-12-19 Thread Andreas Nilsson
wo Blogbench numbers, one for read and another for write. These > were both taken from the same Blogbench run, so FreeBSD optimizes > writes over reads, that's probably a good thing for your data but a > bad thing when someone totally misrepresents benchmark results. > ... > > Fr

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

2011-12-19 Thread Sergey V. Dyatko
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:21:35 +0100 Andreas Nilsson wrote: [skipped] guys, sorry, but... can you choose just _one_ ML and spam it ? performance@, for example. p.s. does anyone trust results from Phoronix, except completely idiots? -- wbr, tiger ___

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

2011-12-19 Thread Samuel J. Greear
openbenchmarking.org/result/1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 -- you will see two Blogbench numbers, one for read and another for write. These were both taken from the same Blogbench run, so FreeBSD optimizes writes over reads, that's probably a good thing for your data but a bad thing when someone totall

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

2011-12-19 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/19/11 09:27, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Samuel. > You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: > >> Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are >> similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time >> should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer furt

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Adrian. You wrote 16 декабря 2011 г., 20:43:27: > Guys/girls/fuzzy things - this is 2011; people look at shiny blog > sites with graphs rather than mailing lists. Sorry, we lost that > battle. :) My thoughts exactly. -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov ___

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

2011-12-19 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Samuel. You wrote 15 декабря 2011 г., 16:32:47: > Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are > similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time > should be wasted by any FreeBSD committer further evaluating this > garbage. (Yes, I have been do

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

2011-12-18 Thread matthew
Thanks. My request for the person documenting the tunings also runs = the benchmark to ensure expected behaviour. The installation, execut= ion and comparison against the benchmarks in the article is fairly simple.<= br> Note that some tuning may not be relevant or recom

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

2011-12-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it >> is legitimate to compare ZFS and ext4. It would be much more competetive >> to compare Linux BTRFS and FreeBSD ZFS. >>

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

2011-12-18 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
27;re at a roadblock -- nobody so far is absolutely certain how to "benchmark" and compare ULE vs. 4BSD in multiple ways, so that those of us involved here can run such utilities and provide the data somewhere central for devs to review. I only mention this because so far I haven't se

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

2011-12-18 Thread Daniel Kalchev
differences? Most such benchmarks are run on a system with no other load whatsoever and in no way represent real world experience. What is more, I believe in such benchmarks "the system feels sluggish" is not measured at all. Even if it is measured, if in such case the benchmark fi

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Larabel
On 12/15/2011 08:26 AM, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: 15.12.2011 17:36, Michael Larabel пишет: On 12/15/2011 07:25 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: Am 15.12.2011 11:10, schrieb Michael Larabel: No, the same hardware was used for each OS. In terms of the software, the stock software stack for each OS was u

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

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g/result/1112113-AR-ORACLELIN37 -- you will > see two Blogbench numbers, one for read and another for write. These > were both taken from the same Blogbench run, so FreeBSD optimizes > writes over reads, that's probably a good thing for your data but a > bad thing when someone

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

2011-12-18 Thread Stefan Esser
be possible with sysctl and/or boot time tuneables, e.g. "vfs.hidirtybuffers"). And a last remark: Single benchmark runs do not provide reliable data. FreeBSD comes with "ministat" to check the significance of benchmark results. Each test should be repeated at least 5 t

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Larabel
And a last remark: Single benchmark runs do not provide reliable data. FreeBSD comes with "ministat" to check the significance of benchmark results. Each test should be repeated at least 5 times for meaningful averages with acceptable confidence level. The Phoronix Test Suite runs most tests a

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

2011-12-18 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all, Am 15.12.2011 um 12:18 schrieb Michael Ross: > Following Steven Hartlands' suggestion, > from one of my machines: > > /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode/#sysctl -a | egrep "hw.vendor|hw.product" > > /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode/#dmidecode -t 2 > # dmidecode 2.11 > SMBIOS 2.6 present. > > H

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Larabel
On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel : On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware, FWIW. And with different filesystems, different compilers, different GUIs... No, the same

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

2011-12-18 Thread Stefan Esser
lls to be swapped out within seconds on systems with background jobs writing to disk). > More interesting is the performance gain due to the architecture. I > think it would be very easy for M. Larabel to repeat this benchmark with > a "bleeding edge" Ubuntu or Suse as well. And sin

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

2011-12-18 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 15.12.2011 11:10, schrieb Michael Larabel: >> No, the same hardware was used for each OS. >> >> In terms of the software, the stock software stack for each OS was used. > > Just curious: Why did you choose ZFS on FreeBSD, while UFS2 (with >

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

2011-12-18 Thread Samuel J. Greear
o FreeBSD optimizes writes over reads, that's probably a good thing for your data but a bad thing when someone totally misrepresents benchmark results. Other benchmarks in the Phoronix suite and their representations are similarly flawed, _ALL_ of these results should be ignored and no time should

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

2011-12-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
data; I can point you to tons of systems where the data inserted there is nonsense, sometimes even just ASCII spaces (and that is the fault of the system vendor/BIOS manufacturer, not FreeBSD). Sometimes identical strings are used across completely different systems/boards (sometimes even server-clas

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Ross
Am 15.12.2011, 11:55 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel : On 12/15/2011 04:41 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel : On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware, FWIW. And with different filesystems,

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

2011-12-18 Thread Michael Ross
Am 15.12.2011, 11:10 Uhr, schrieb Michael Larabel : On 12/15/2011 02:48 AM, Michael Ross wrote: Anyway these tests were performed on different hardware, FWIW. And with different filesystems, different compilers, different GUIs... No, the same hardware was used for each OS. The pictur

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

2011-12-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
Can someone please write up a nice, concise blog post somewhere outlining all of this? Extra bonus points if it's a blog that is picked up by blogs.freebsdish.org and/or some of the other BSD sites. Guys/girls/fuzzy things - this is 2011; people look at shiny blog sites with graphs rather than ma

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

2011-12-16 Thread Attilio Rao
2011/12/16 Arnaud Lacombe : > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, O. Hartmann > wrote: >> Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today: >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNzA >> > it might be worth highlight

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

2011-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/16/11 07:44, Joe Holden wrote: > Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, O. Hartmann >> wrote: >>> Just saw this shot benchmark on Phoronix dot com today: >>> >>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news

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

2011-12-15 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, O. Hartmann wrote: > Am 12/15/11 14:51, schrieb Daniel Kalchev: >> >> On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Stefan Esser wrote: >> >>> Am 15.12.2011 11:10, schrieb Michael Larabel: No, the same hardware was used for each OS. In terms of the software, the stoc

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

2011-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
rks "the system feels sluggish" is not > measured at all. Even if it is measured, if in such case the benchmark > finishes "better" - that is, faster, or say, makes the system freeze for the > user for the duration of the test -- it will be considered "win"

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

2011-12-15 Thread O. Hartmann
rs the best performance available by turning on the default FS by a standard stock installation. Using ZFS on Linux would be a great disadvantage and the benchmark would turn out the same bullsh... as comparing Linux-domain only with FreeBSD weknesses only ... Linux distributions offer setups fo

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

2011-12-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
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. You can't ignore benchmarks be

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