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


Hello, Matthew.
You wrote 19 =E4=E5=EA=E0=E1=F0=FF 2011 =E3., 13:13:09:

>> (1) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by "fixing" FreeBSD
>>=20
>> (2) Make FreeBSD looks good on benchmarks by "fixing" Phoronix
>> (communication with them, convincing, that they benchamrks are unfare
>> / meaningless, ets)
> (2a) Ignore Phoronix, other than explaining concisely why their numbers
> are complete balderdash.  Publish our own benchmarks, done with care and
> rigour and using well defined, repeatable, peer reviewed methodology
> that anyone can repeat.  Aggressively publicise these results.
  Ok, it is The Way too, I agree. But in modern world, unfortunately
 (for me, and I'm sure, for many FreeBSD hackers), keywords are "Aggressive=
ly
 publicise" but not "done with care and rigour and using well defined,
repeatable, peer reviewed methodology that anyone can repeat"

>> (3) Lose [potential] userbase.
> Indeed.  Unfortunately "performance" is /the/ deciding factor in many OS
> choices, never mind that it is an impossibly complex subject to
> generalise to a few management-friendly numbers in a one-size-fits-all
> abstract way.  Having only one source of published numbers suggesting
> that "OS Foo is better" *even if those numbers are completely bogus*
> will have a disproportionate effect.
  Yep.

--=20
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>

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