[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 18:17:32 UTC 2009
Eric Springer wrote:
> 2009/6/12 Christoph Höger <choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de>:
>> Without knowing how exactly the benchmark works I
>> would guess that most of those apache requests are
>> kernel calls so SELinux _might_ make a huge difference
>> here.
>
> Shouldn't be overly hard to test as phoronix-test-suite is available
> in Fedora's repository. I'd run it, but my system at the moment
> won't play nicely with SELinux.
>
>> Perhaps somebody from the SELinux team should tell
>> phoronix about it (and to _always_ test with SELinux disabled to measure
>> the price of security).
>
> Would kind of defeat the purpose of "out of the box" benchmarking of
> the distros. Just like how phoronix didn't change Ubuntu's filesystem
> to ext4 when comparing it against Fedora.
True, though over and over again I see things where I wish they'd at
least dig into the discrepancies they find, rather than just reporting
numbers.
-Eric
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