Re: benchmarks

[Haidut <haidut@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.
Any suggestions from the Dfly community on other benchmarking tools
that would run across the OSs I mention in my first email?



On 4/14/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> :I'll recompile the kernel for this test as you suggest. However, maybe
> :it's not a bad idea in the future to add a kernel on the Dfly live CD
> :that is more production oriented (without debugging option and
> :whatever other options are turned on for development/testing
> :purposes). Just a thought.
>
>     Nah.  You have to be more careful with the debugging options in FreeBSD
>     kernels.  FreeBSD release kernels ship with the most invasive options
>     turned off and development kernels ship with them on.
>
>     The debugging options in DragonFly kernels are far less invasive and
>     we leave them turned on in both development and release kernels,
>     because getting good, useful crash dumps is more important to us then
>     the slight (and usually unnoticeable) reduction in performance.
>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dillon@backplane.com>