Benchmarks: FreeBSD 13 vs. NetBSD 9.2 vs. OpenBSD 7 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6 vs. Linux - Phoronix reddit / freebsd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2021-12-12 02:01 Discussions: * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- masterblaster0 · 2021-12-12 09:23 Always sceptical of Phoronix's benchmarks, they always seem to have such wild variation. Like this observation by [Allan Jude](https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd- current/2021-December/001184.html) >I tried to investigate this a bit yesterday. Specifically, seeing 'zstd' and 'openssl 3.0 sha256' being significantly worse on FreeBSD, when especially the latter, should basically have 0 difference between OSes. >The Phoronix test suite is available as a package for freebsd, but I don't know what kind of magic is required to make it actually work. The compress-zstd-1.5.0 benchmark's install.sh tries to compile zstd with BSD make, when the makefile only works for GNU make. A little hacking around that, and I managed to run the test, but the results I got were in line with Linux, over 2 GB/sec, not the 300 MB/sec their result reported. >I've not managed to figure out what they could have done wrong. It really does look like for zstd, it was someone only using 1 core on FreeBSD, and all cores on every other OS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Xerxero · 2021-12-12 09:54 I really would like to see the benchmarks after someone with knowledge tunes FreeBSD specifically to these tests. But kudos to dragonfly. They really did a great job with the last release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucaprinaorg · 2021-12-12 11:14 The defaults of Clear Linux are good reference in case you would like to optimize against a specific solution ---------------------------------------------------------------------- grahamperrin · 2021-12-12 14:49 Thanks. ### Zstandard compression test results See what's linked from the foot of the opening post at ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PinkFreud2019 · 2022-10-28 17:54 Note, OpenBSD was the only one measured with the hyperthreading off, because it is the default setting. Mean average of all tests shows >50% of other BSDs performance