Benchmark - 2nd run

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Jan 16 05:27:39 PST 2004


On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:12:41AM +0100, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have made another set of benchmarks, following several
> suggestions. I benchmarked FreeBSD 4.9-R, 5.1-R, 5.2-R and
> DragonFly. 
> 
> - I used the same kernel configuration file for the 4 systems. In
>   particular I removed 'cpu 486', maxusers was set to 0, and I don't
>   have INVARIANTS or WITNESS options.
> 
> - the kernels and the worlds were compiled with CFLAGS=-O -pipe.
> 
> - /etc/malloc.conf is always linked to aj
> 
> - I/O tests were done on the same filesystem (IDE UDMA33 in all cases)
> 
> - bytebench binaries were compiled static. I used the same binaries
>   on FreeBSD 4.9-R and DragonFly; they were recompiled on
>   FreeBSD-5.[12] as the compiler is not the same.
> 

Could you try to build the userland apps (the benchmarks) with the same compiler
version? Esp. the arithmetic test are not really comparable since gcc 3.3 has
some improvements over 3.2 over 2.95.

Joerg

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