Slowest Ubuntu still faster...
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| nalf38 Nov 25, 2008 2:16 AM EDT |
I find it interesting that Ubuntu's slowest distro yet (according to a previous Phoronix article in which the three most recent Ubuntu releases were compared) is still faster than OpenSolaris and FreeBSD on many benchmarks. Now if only we could have ZFS.... |
| herzeleid Nov 25, 2008 2:32 AM EDT |
Once we have btrfs you'll forget all about zfs.... |
| Sander_Marechal Nov 25, 2008 3:07 AM EDT |
I was surprised by this as well. Not about Ubuntu beating OpenSolaris. I expected that. Plenty of people have blogged about the slugginess of OpenSolaris. But I really expected FreeBSD to be just as fast of not faster than Ubuntu. |
| gus3 Nov 25, 2008 4:48 AM EDT |
One of the selling points of Solaris is its C2 (common capability) auditing. When an organization needs this (e.g. health care or military), the slowdown due to C2 is an acceptable trade-off. OpenSolaris inherits this focus, although I'd prefer Solaris to OpenSolaris in a mission-critical environment. FreeBSD is more concerned with doing something right ("the Unix way") than doing it fast. System optimization is simply not a priority for the *BSD systems. |
| Almindor Nov 25, 2008 6:39 AM EDT |
I think their FreeBSD might've been a bit misconfigured. I went from Ubuntu 8.10 (AMD64) to FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 (AMD64) and it's much much faster even if I skip the graphics card change (I have ati, and on freeBSD I can only use the OSS drivers. I enabled EXA and got latest drm so I have very fast 2D compared to fglrx on linux). The UFS/FFS performance is extremely better compared to stock ext3 (see http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curvebal... there's also a kernel discussion but I lost the link to that). I think they might've had softupdates turned off (but if they used the autopartitioner then it'd be turned on). Also the new ULE2/3 scheduler in 7.1 is much better compared to CFS in my opinion even if it has some quirks. I haven't done real benchmarks tho, but to me this system is much more snappier, especially on starting multiple applications at once (1st time) and under load. |
| Steven_Rosenber Nov 25, 2008 12:44 PM EDT |
FreeBSD 7 has quite a few speed improvements, and much advantage in speed can come from using ports, which are compiled on and for your specific system. I remember Ladislav Bodner commenting on the loss in speed on one of the Distrowatch servers when he moved it from FreeBSD to Debian. He just didn't have the time to build a server the FBSD way. I'm not surprised that Linux (Ubuntu or any other) is faster. I'm also not surprised that OpenSolaris is slower. Ever try to run that live CD or install it? |
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