FreeBSD Project Launches FreeBSD 6.0

Posted Nov 6, 2005 7:13 UTC (Sun) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]

I was familiar with the 'fefe' benchmark and have been for some months
(remember, it's old enough to have tested Linux 2.6.0-test7). If you're
going to disagree with me, do it on factual grounds...

>> yeah, from someone else's post, so don't claim them as your "source"
after the fact.

I'm sure you don't believe that it is possible I've actually seen that
benchmark before. Yet, regardless, this statement of yours is totally
worthless as it is a direct attack on me versus sane discussion of the
subject matter.

FreeBSD did seem to do fairly well for most of the benchmarks, indeed.
However, look at the Newsforge MySQL benchmarks - all three BSDs suffered
terribly in the jump from 1 to 2 CPUs.

As a side note, NetBSD turned out to be misconfigured, because at the
time there was an *undocumented* gotcha that you had to set
PTHREAD_CONCURRENCY in the environment in order to actually allow the
software to go parallel. Yet this did not save the day for the other two
BSD's.

The bottom line on this performance argument is this:

1. Linux beats FreeBSD in nearly every benchmark I've seen for a while,
either by a little or by a lot;
2. The above is especially true when the number of CPUs starts to rise.